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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: Bernhard Voelker <mail <at> bernhard-voelker.de>
Cc: 15926 <at> debbugs.gnu.org, Bob Proulx <bob <at> proulx.com>
Subject: bug#15926: RFE: unlink command already uses 'unlink' call; make 'rm' use 'remove' call
Date: Wed, 20 Nov 2013 19:07:10 -0700

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On 11/20/2013 05:03 PM, Bernhard Voelker wrote:
> On 11/20/2013 02:44 PM, Eric Blake wrote:
>> On 11/19/2013 11:45 PM, Bernhard Voelker wrote:
>>> Maybe "cannot remove directory" is a bit weak - it's more like
>>> "refusing to remove dot|dot-dot|root directory".
>>
>> Indeed, a clearer error message would be possible.
> 
> What about the following?
> 
>   $ src/rm -r src/.
>   src/rm: refusing to remove '.' or '..' directory: skipping 'src/.'

That helps.  But I'm also starting to think we should add a new long
option --no-preserve-dot, similar to how --no-preserve-root can be used
to work around the restriction.  Then people that want to can create an
alias or other wrapper around rm to get the non-nanny behavior, while
the default behavior still complies with POSIX.

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Eric Blake   eblake redhat com    +1-919-301-3266
Libvirt virtualization library http://libvirt.org

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