Subject: Re: bug#21084: rm appears to no longer be POSIX compliant (as of 2013 edition) re: deleting empty dirs and files under <path>/.

From: Paul Eggert <[email-masked]>
Date: Sun, 02 Aug 2015 23:29:04 -0700

Linda Walsh wrote:
> People with older systems don't always keep upto-date with the latest versions

People that don't keep up-to-date can't rely on any changes that we would make 
to 'rm'.  Besides, we don't care about SVR4 systems so old that they're no 
longer supported.

I ran my little test on the same file system.

I'm afraid I'm not persuaded.