Subject: Re: 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 18:04:54 -0700

Shouldn't that be 'users "curse" rmdir'?

All rmdir implementations behave that way;
GNU rmdir is no different.

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'.