Re: coreutils/man/rm.x - fails to mention POSIX "Refuse to remove path/. and path/.., as well as `.' and `..'

[Dragan Simic]

On 2023-09-25 12:58, Rob Landley wrote:
> On 9/24/23 01:37, James Feeney via GNU coreutils General Discussion 
> wrote:
> > Sorry, that was probably a bit harsh.
>
> No, people used to regularly boggle at why info still exists:
>
> https://www.reddit.com/r/gnu/comments/240mle/why_does_gnu_cling_to_info/
> https://unix.stackexchange.com/questions/77514/what-is-gnu-info-for
> https://unix.stackexchange.com/questions/159859/why-didnt-gnu-info-succeed-man
> https://www.reddit.com/r/linuxadmin/comments/27dxrr/does_anybody_use_gnu_info/
>
> These days, info seems so dead nobody talks about it at all anymore.

Here's a brief insight into what happened about 15-20 years ago when I 
tried using GNU info for the first time...  I failed to see how is it 
supposed to be used, and how the actual information is to be reached, 
after trying that for ~10 minutes or so, maybe even a few times, IIRC.  
Mind you, I _wanted_ to use info, and I did learn to use vim beforehand, 
which seems to be a posterboy for hard to use utilities.

> Here's a patch I used to apply to binutils 11 years ago:
>
> https://github.com/landley/aboriginal/blob/master/sources/patches/binutils-screwinfo.patch
>
> Rob