Subject: bug#15926: RFE: unlink command already uses 'unlink' call; make 'rm' use 'remove' call

From: Eric Blake <[email-masked]>
Date: Thu, 21 Nov 2013 13:02:02 -0700

On 11/19/2013 05:15 AM, Pádraig Brady wrote:
>> So how about upgrading 'rm' to use the remove function so
>> it would work on empty directories as well.
> 
> Well we have the -d option to rm to explicitly do that.
> That's a fairly fundamental change that would have backwards compat issues.
> POSIX is explicit in the handling of directories also:
> http://pubs.opengroup.org/onlinepubs/9699919799/utilities/rm.html

I've filed a bug against POSIX requesting the standardization of 'rm -d':
http://austingroupbugs.net/view.php?id=802

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