On Thu, Nov 7, 2013 at 9:08 AM, Bernhard Voelker <[email protected]> wrote: > On 11/07/2013 04:25 PM, Jim Meyering wrote: >> Does the current behavior conflict with POSIX or >> disagree with how other implementations work? > > Hi Jim, > > no, it doesn't conflict with POSIX, and for the --link case > (this thread) I think we have found consensus. > > The problem is - unfortunately in the other bug#15806 [1] > that rm behaves differently regarding the dereferencing (or not) > of symbolic links when the -r option is specified (or not). > The BSDs seem to also dereference without -r. > > [1] http://debbugs.gnu.org/cgi/bugreport.cgi?bug=15806
Right. Thanks for the summary. I was referring to the -R-vs-deref issue but hadn't read the original report carefully. I will follow up on that thread.
