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: Andreas Schwab <[email-masked]>
Date: Sat, 18 Jul 2015 10:43:28 +0200

Linda Walsh <[email-masked]> writes:

> In looking at the 2013 specification for rm
> (http://pubs.opengroup.org/onlinepubs/9699919799/utilities/rm.html),
>
> it no longer says to stop processing if the path basename equals
> "." or "..". 

"If either of the files dot or dot-dot are specified as the basename
portion of an operand (that is, the final pathname component) or if an
operand resolves to the root directory, rm shall write a diagnostic
message to standard error and do nothing more with such operands."

Andreas.

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