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RFE: unlink command already uses 'unlink' call; make 'rm' use 'remove' call

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From: Eric Blake <eblake <at> redhat.com>
To: Pádraig Brady <P <at> draigBrady.com>,
 Linda Walsh <coreutils <at> tlinx.org>
Cc: 15926 <at> debbugs.gnu.org
Subject: Re: bug#15926: RFE: unlink command already uses 'unlink' call; make
 'rm' use 'remove' call
Date: Thu, 21 Nov 2013 13:02:02 -0700

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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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Eric Blake   eblake redhat com    +1-919-301-3266
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