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| From: | Paul Eggert |
| Subject: | bug#12400: rmdir runs "amok", users "curse" GNU...(as rmdir has no option to stay on 1 file system)... |
| Date: | Sun, 09 Sep 2012 18:04:54 -0700 |
| User-agent: | Mozilla/5.0 (X11; Linux i686; rv:15.0) Gecko/20120827 Thunderbird/15.0 |
Shouldn't that be 'users "curse" rmdir'? All rmdir implementations behave that way; GNU rmdir is no different. It's not clear to me why 'rmdir /foo/a /bar/b' should by default reject the attempt to remove '/bar/b' merely because it's on a different file system from '/foo/a'.
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