Subject: 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: Mon, 3 Aug 2015 13:45:28 -0700

On 08/03/2015 12:40 PM, Linda Walsh wrote:

>  there is no single POSIX --
> what version are talking about

The current version, POSIX.1-2013.  The code also works in 
POSIX.1-2004.  At this point older POSIX releases are mostly just 
historical curiosities; application developers shouldn't need to worry 
about them.

> Did you at least drop the caches between runs (i.e.)
> by echoing '3' to /proc/sys/vm/drop_caches?

No, I didn't mess with the caches.  I'm reasonably sure everything was 
cached.