Date: Wed, 10 Apr 2002 10:45:25 +0200 (CEST) From: Bogdan TARU <bgd@icomag.de> To: "Rogier R. Mulhuijzen" <drwilco@drwilco.net>, Terry Lambert <tlambert2@mindspring.com>, <freebsd-hackers@FreeBSD.ORG> Subject: Re: 'rm' incompatibility with Posix.2 Message-ID: <20020410103608.F79910-100000@fw.cgn.icom> In-Reply-To: <5.1.0.14.0.20020410095652.01c67aa0@mail.drwilco.net>
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Dear Rogier & Terry, I didn't say the behaviour contradicts Posix.2. I just said that Posix.2 specifies removal of the trailing slashes when doing directory operation. Which, for example, freebsd 'rm' does not, which leads to a strange behaviour. As I stated, I have tryied this on more than one other OS (OpenBSD 2.9, 3.0, Linux, HP UX 10.20, Solaris 2.7, 2.8), and all yelded the same result (different from the FreeBSD). Also, I quote from the FreeBSD man page of 'rm': "The rm utility removes symbolic links, not the files referenced by the links." Greetings, bogdan On Wed, 10 Apr 2002, Rogier R. Mulhuijzen wrote: > > > 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 > To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-hackers" in the body of the message
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