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bug#15926: RFE: unlink command already uses 'unlink' call; make 'rm' use
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Pádraig Brady |
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bug#15926: RFE: unlink command already uses 'unlink' call; make 'rm' use 'remove' call |
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Tue, 19 Nov 2013 12:15:25 +0000 |
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On 11/19/2013 11:56 AM, Linda Walsh wrote:
> Since there is already an unlink command that corresponds to unlinking a file,
> but there seems to be no command corresponding to the POSIX
> remove command, it seems upgrading 'rm' to use the 'remove'
> POSIX call would be a beneficial move of all the recent POSIX
> changes.
>
> So how about upgrading 'rm' to use the remove function so
> it would work on empty directories as well.
Well we have the -d option to rm to explicitly do that.
That's a fairly fundamental change that would have backwards compat issues.
POSIX is explicit in the handling of directories also:
http://pubs.opengroup.org/onlinepubs/9699919799/utilities/rm.html
thanks,
Pádraig.
- bug#15926: RFE: unlink command already uses 'unlink' call; make 'rm' use 'remove' call, Linda Walsh, 2013/11/19
- bug#15926: RFE: unlink command already uses 'unlink' call; make 'rm' use 'remove' call,
Pádraig Brady <=
- bug#15926: RFE: unlink command already uses 'unlink' call; make 'rm' use 'remove' call, Linda Walsh, 2013/11/19
- bug#15926: RFE: unlink command already uses 'unlink' call; make 'rm' use 'remove' call, Eric Blake, 2013/11/19
- bug#15926: RFE: unlink command already uses 'unlink' call; make 'rm' use 'remove' call, Linda Walsh, 2013/11/19
- bug#15926: RFE: unlink command already uses 'unlink' call; make 'rm' use 'remove' call, Bob Proulx, 2013/11/19
- bug#15926: RFE: unlink command already uses 'unlink' call; make 'rm' use 'remove' call, Linda Walsh, 2013/11/19
- bug#15926: RFE: unlink command already uses 'unlink' call; make 'rm' use 'remove' call, Eric Blake, 2013/11/19
- bug#15926: RFE: unlink command already uses 'unlink' call; make 'rm' use 'remove' call, Eric Blake, 2013/11/19
- bug#15926: RFE: unlink command already uses 'unlink' call; make 'rm' use 'remove' call, Bernhard Voelker, 2013/11/20
- bug#15926: RFE: unlink command already uses 'unlink' call; make 'rm' use 'remove' call, Eric Blake, 2013/11/20
- bug#15926: RFE: unlink command already uses 'unlink' call; make 'rm' use 'remove' call, Bernhard Voelker, 2013/11/20