On 11/19/2013 05:15 AM, Pádraig Brady wrote: >> So how about upgrading 'rm' to use the remove function so >> it would work on empty directories as well. > > Well we have the -d option to rm to explicitly do that. > That's a fairly fundamental change that would have backwards compat issues. > POSIX is explicit in the handling of directories also: > http://pubs.opengroup.org/onlinepubs/9699919799/utilities/rm.html
I've filed a bug against POSIX requesting the standardization of 'rm -d': http://austingroupbugs.net/view.php?id=802 -- Eric Blake eblake redhat com +1-919-301-3266 Libvirt virtualization library http://libvirt.org
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