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

From: Assaf Gordon <[email-masked]>
Date: Fri, 18 Jan 2019 01:32:49 -0700

retitle 12400 rmdir: add --one-file-system option
severity 12400 wishlist
tags 12400 wontfix
stop

(triaging old bugs)

Hello,

On 2012-09-09 11:22 p.m., Bob Proulx wrote:
> Linda Walsh wrote:
>> If you are going to only provide 1 mode of functionality, it should
>> be to only rmdir dirs on the same file system as the starting args.
> 
[...]
> But rmdir only removes the directories you tell it to remove.
> 
[...]

> If you want a recursive option why not use 'rm -rf'?
> 
> There is always 'find' with the -delete option.  But regardless there
> has been the find -exec option.
> 
>    find /some/path -type d -delete
> 
>    find /some/path -depth -type d -exec rmdir {} +
> 

With no further comments in 6 years, I'm closing this
request.

regards,
  - assaf