Date: Wed, 10 Apr 2002 15:23:23 -0700 From: Terry Lambert <tlambert2@mindspring.com> To: Dag-Erling Smorgrav <des@ofug.org> Cc: Bogdan TARU <bgd@icomag.de>, freebsd-hackers@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: 'rm' incompatibility with Posix.2 Message-ID: <3CB4BB5B.96605F5@mindspring.com> References: <20020410164921.U82564-100000@fw.cgn.icom> <xzpzo0bvbdv.fsf@flood.ping.uio.no>
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Dag-Erling Smorgrav wrote: > Bogdan TARU <bgd@icomag.de> writes: > > Could you also try the NetBDS's 'rm'? If it does work like FreeBDS, than > > I really don't know what to believe anymore. > > It doesn't, actually, it removes the symlink rather than the directory > it points at. I think ut uses the value of "lstat" instead of "stat" to get the aforementioned behaviour, and specifically excepts a blank component name. This is very different than "removing the trailing '/'". If someone cares enough, I'm sure a FreeBSD developer somewhere has access to the Solaris sources, and can look... the CDROM's have not been out of production that long. -- Terry To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-hackers" in the body of the message
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