Subject: bug#12400: rmdir runs "amok", users "curse" GNU...(as rmdir has no option to stay on 1 file system)...

From: Paul Eggert <[email-masked]>
Date: Sun, 09 Sep 2012 18:53:48 -0700

On 09/09/2012 06:40 PM, Linda Walsh wrote:
>> It's not clear to me why 'rmdir /foo/a /bar/b' should by default
>> reject the attempt to remove '/bar/b' merely because it's on a
>> different file system from '/foo/a'.
> ----
> Then why have the option for 'rm'?

There is no such option for 'rm'.  The --one-file-system
option is a different option; it doesn't have the behavior
mentioned above.