On Wed, Oct 24, 2012 at 11:49 AM, Jonathan Billings <[email protected]>wrote:

> I am not aware of how the early implementations worked, but if this
> were the case, wouldn't "rm -r somedir/" detect somedir/.. and then
>

"rm -r" specifically detects that case.  Of course, that may have only been
added in the first bug fix after -r was added to rm, back in the
prehistoric Unix days :)

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