tag 19051 notabug
close 19501
stop
On 14/11/14 06:53, aaron brick wrote:
hi folks,
$ ln -s / sl
$ rm sl/
rm: cannot remove `sl/': Is a directory
$ rm sl
$
the presence of the slash is not such a great way to test for whether
or not a file is a directory. you may find the above example
On 11/14/2014 04:41 AM, Pádraig Brady wrote:
tag 19051 notabug
close 19501
stop
On 14/11/14 06:53, aaron brick wrote:
hi folks,
$ ln -s / sl
$ rm sl/
rm: cannot remove `sl/': Is a directory
$ rm sl
$
Confused me too when I encountered it first, but tt's required by POSIX:
On 11/14/2014 06:15 AM, Eric Blake wrote:
Confused me too when I encountered it first, but tt's required by POSIX:
http://pubs.opengroup.org/onlinepubs/009695399/basedefs/xbd_chap04.html#tag_04_11
No, actually, POSIX requires that it (attempt to) remove the DIRECTORY,
not the symlink.
thanks for your time and comments folks!
On Fri, Nov 14, 2014 at 6:47 AM, Eric Blake ebl...@redhat.com wrote:
On 11/14/2014 06:15 AM, Eric Blake wrote:
Confused me too when I encountered it first, but tt's required by POSIX:
On 13/11/14 16:06, Boris Ranto wrote:
On Thu, 2014-11-13 at 15:41 +, Pádraig Brady wrote:
On 13/11/14 13:58, Boris Ranto wrote:
On Wed, 2014-09-24 at 17:18 +0100, Pádraig Brady wrote:
On 09/18/2014 11:52 AM, Ondrej Vasik wrote:
Hi,
as reported in
