Date: Wed, 10 Apr 2002 13:09:54 +0200 From: Bernd Walter <ticso@cicely9.cicely.de> To: Bogdan TARU <bgd@icomag.de> Cc: "Rogier R. Mulhuijzen" <drwilco@drwilco.net>, Terry Lambert <tlambert2@mindspring.com>, freebsd-hackers@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: 'rm' incompatibility with Posix.2 Message-ID: <20020410110954.GF99407@cicely9.cicely.de> In-Reply-To: <20020410103608.F79910-100000@fw.cgn.icom> References: <5.1.0.14.0.20020410095652.01c67aa0@mail.drwilco.net> <20020410103608.F79910-100000@fw.cgn.icom>
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On Wed, Apr 10, 2002 at 10:45:25AM +0200, Bogdan TARU wrote: > > 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." I can't see the point where it is wrong. You aren't referencing a link. And why should rm behave differently than e.g. ls? If I add a trailing '/' I would expect every command to do the same. Well if your are working on differenet systems you should add '/.' to be shure and forget about the '/' only case. -- B.Walter COSMO-Project http://www.cosmo-project.de ticso@cicely.de Usergroup info@cosmo-project.de To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-hackers" in the body of the message
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