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From: | Eric Blake |
Subject: | bug#15926: RFE: unlink command already uses 'unlink' call; make 'rm' use 'remove' call |
Date: | Thu, 21 Nov 2013 13:02:02 -0700 |
User-agent: | Mozilla/5.0 (X11; Linux x86_64; rv:24.0) Gecko/20100101 Thunderbird/24.1.0 |
On 11/19/2013 05:15 AM, Pádraig Brady wrote: >> 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 I've filed a bug against POSIX requesting the standardization of 'rm -d': http://austingroupbugs.net/view.php?id=802 -- Eric Blake eblake redhat com +1-919-301-3266 Libvirt virtualization library http://libvirt.org
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