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Date: Wed, 10 Apr 2002 09:58:01 +0200
To: Bogdan TARU <bgd@icomag.de>, <freebsd-hackers@FreeBSD.ORG>
From: "Rogier R. Mulhuijzen" <drwilco@drwilco.net>
Subject: Re: 'rm' incompatibility with Posix.2
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>  I have attached a patch for the 'rm' untility, which strips the trailing
>slash(es) from the path (according to Posix.2). But I think there are many
>other utilities which need to be patched (e.g. cp, mv).

Can you point out how the behavior violates POSIX.2?

         Doc


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