Subject: Re: bug#12339: Bug: rm -fr . doesn't dir depth first deletion yet it is documented to do so.

From: Bernhard Voelker <[email-masked]>
Date: Tue, 04 Sep 2012 12:48:05 +0200

On 09/04/2012 12:42 PM, Jim Meyering wrote:
> I have mixed feelings, but am leaning towards the
> Solaris 11/FreeBSD behavior.

They must have fixed it for Solaris, here's an older one:

  $ uname -sr ; mkdir d; ln -s d s; /bin/rm -r s/; ls
  SunOS 5.9
  d

Have a nice day,
Berny