Eric Blake wrote: > On 01/23/2012 05:22 AM, Krzysztof Goj wrote: >> It was raised in the Google+ discussion that -d flag has been added to >> BSD code base in 1990. >> I checked the man pages of FreeBSD, NetBSD, OpenBSD and Mac OS X and >> the -d option is there. > > That's the most convincing argument for adding this, even though it is > somewhat redundant with rmdir(1). > >> >> I attach output of `git format-patch --stdout -1`, you can also >> get the changes from my github (https://github.com/goj/coreutils, >> rm-d branch). > > Thanks; right now, the biggest remaining hurdle is copyright assignment. > I will send you details off-list to get that started. > >> >> This is my first patch to the coreutils, so please review it carefully. > > I won't review it until your assignment is in place (so as not to taint > myself if we have to reimplement it from scratch).
For the record, I have explicitly ignored your changes to rm.c and remove.c, for now, for the same reason.
