Eric Blake wrote:
the discussion here is about an early exit
on an attempt to remove '.', which, contrary to your claim, appears to
always have been in POSIX as far as I can tell (and even if it has not
always been in POSIX, the fact that I can quote a 20-year-old document
that describes current behavior means that any change to a default now
would be breaking 20 years of what script writers have come to rely on).
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My initial post under this subject said that it was a matter
of not following gnu policy -- of not removing a feature just because
posix said to do so.
I was cited posix as the justification for this change.
Apparently that was incorrect, as you point out. My point was
that the behavior/feature was allowed in coreutils and removed with
a justification that posix disallowed it.
I doubt I can find a commit, but I may be able to find
a version of coreutils where this is the case, but likely, not
quickly.
