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Re: rm
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Eric Blake |
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Re: rm |
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Sat, 24 Feb 2007 11:59:40 -0700 |
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According to Frederick Alexander Thomssen on 2/22/2007 11:14 AM:
> > There is nothing wrong with removing $PWD.
> >
> OK, but what's wrong with removing . then?
POSIX forbids it, since on some filesystems, . is not an actual inode, but
merely a special-case artifact. And GNU coreutils respects the rules of
POSIX.
- --
Don't work too hard, make some time for fun as well!
Eric Blake address@hidden
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- Re: rm, Frederick Alexander Thomssen, 2007/02/22
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- Re: rm, Frederick Alexander Thomssen, 2007/02/22