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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From: Paul Eggert <eggert <at> cs.ucla.edu>
To: Linda Walsh <coreutils <at> tlinx.org>
Cc: 21084 <at> debbugs.gnu.org
Subject: bug#21084: rm appears to no longer be POSIX compliant (as of 2013	edition) re: deleting empty dirs and files under <path>/.
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.
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