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 :) -- brandon s allbery kf8nh sine nomine associates [email protected] [email protected] unix/linux, openafs, kerberos, infrastructure http://sinenomine.net
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