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bug#21084: rm appears to no longer be POSIX compliant (as of 2013 editio


From: Paul Eggert
Subject: bug#21084: rm appears to no longer be POSIX compliant (as of 2013 edition) re: deleting empty dirs and files under <path>/.
Date: Sun, 02 Aug 2015 23:29:04 -0700
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Linda Walsh wrote:
People with older systems don't always keep upto-date with the latest versions

People that don't keep up-to-date can't rely on any changes that we would make to 'rm'. Besides, we don't care about SVR4 systems so old that they're no longer supported.

I ran my little test on the same file system.

I'm afraid I'm not persuaded.





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