[EMAIL PROTECTED] (Eric Blake) writes: > is it worth bringing this up with the austin group?
Probably not; I doubt whether they'd change the spec. > Is it worth changing rm to be consistent in its status regardless of > options No. I kind of like it the way that it is. > Furthermore, it is always possible for forced deletes to match POSIX > requirements by using this idiom, since the file '' does not exist: > rm -f `generate a list` '' I'm not sure that would work with ancient (non-Posix) Unix systems (SunOS 4, perhaps?) where "" is an alias for ".". You might get a diagnostic for the "". (It's hard to be sure about this nowadays.) The usual solution is something like this: rm -f _ `generate a list` where _ is known to not exist (or, if it does exist, you want it to be removed). > Should this be mentioned in the autoconf portability documentation? That would be nice; can you please write it up? _______________________________________________ Bug-coreutils mailing list [email protected] http://lists.gnu.org/mailman/listinfo/bug-coreutils
