GNU bug report logs - #15926
RFE: unlink command already uses 'unlink' call; make 'rm' use 'remove' call

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Package: coreutils;

Reported by: Linda Walsh <coreutils <at> tlinx.org>

Date: Tue, 19 Nov 2013 11:58:02 UTC

Severity: normal

Tags: notabug, patch

Merged with 15943

Done: Assaf Gordon <assafgordon <at> gmail.com>

Bug is archived. No further changes may be made.

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Message #5 received at submit <at> debbugs.gnu.org (full text, mbox):

From: Linda Walsh <coreutils <at> tlinx.org>
To: bug-coreutils <at> gnu.org
Subject: RFE: unlink command already uses 'unlink' call;
 make 'rm' use 'remove' call
Date: Tue, 19 Nov 2013 03:56:59 -0800

Since there is already an unlink command that corresponds to unlinking a file,
but there seems to be no command corresponding to the POSIX
remove command, it seems upgrading 'rm' to use the 'remove'
POSIX call would be a beneficial move of all the recent POSIX
changes.

So how about upgrading 'rm' to use the remove function so
it would work on empty directories as well.
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