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

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Package: coreutils;

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

Date: Sat, 18 Jul 2015 07:57:01 UTC

Severity: normal

Tags: notabug

Done: Paul Eggert <eggert <at> cs.ucla.edu>

Bug is archived. No further changes may be made.

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Message #24 received at 21084 <at> debbugs.gnu.org (full text, mbox):

From: Paul Eggert <eggert <at> cs.ucla.edu>
To: Linda Walsh <coreutils <at> tlinx.org>, Andreas Schwab <schwab <at> linux-m68k.org>
Cc: 21084 <at> debbugs.gnu.org
Subject: Re: bug#21084: rm appears to no longer be POSIX compliant (as of
 2013	edition) re: deleting empty dirs and files under <path>/.
Date: Fri, 31 Jul 2015 18:29:48 -0700

Linda Walsh wrote:
>     Since there is no opposition to this, I presume, all you need now
> is a patch?

My impression is that hardly anybody cares about this corner case.

How about the following idea instead?  We could have --no-preserve-root also 
skip the special treatment for '.' and '..'.  That way, we shouldn't need to add 
an option.
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