On 11/20/2013 05:03 PM, Bernhard Voelker wrote: > On 11/20/2013 02:44 PM, Eric Blake wrote: >> On 11/19/2013 11:45 PM, Bernhard Voelker wrote: >>> Maybe "cannot remove directory" is a bit weak - it's more like >>> "refusing to remove dot|dot-dot|root directory". >> >> Indeed, a clearer error message would be possible. > > What about the following? > > $ src/rm -r src/. > src/rm: refusing to remove '.' or '..' directory: skipping 'src/.'
That helps. But I'm also starting to think we should add a new long option --no-preserve-dot, similar to how --no-preserve-root can be used to work around the restriction. Then people that want to can create an alias or other wrapper around rm to get the non-nanny behavior, while the default behavior still complies with POSIX. -- Eric Blake eblake redhat com +1-919-301-3266 Libvirt virtualization library http://libvirt.org
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