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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 |
User-agent: | Mozilla/5.0 (X11; Linux x86_64; rv:31.0) Gecko/20100101 Thunderbird/31.8.0 |
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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