From owner-freebsd-hackers Wed Apr 10 7:50:49 2002 Delivered-To: freebsd-hackers@freebsd.org Received: from Awfulhak.org (gw.Awfulhak.org [217.204.245.18]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 7DFFD37B404 for ; Wed, 10 Apr 2002 07:50:42 -0700 (PDT) Received: from hak.lan.Awfulhak.org (root@hak.lan.Awfulhak.org [IPv6:fec0::1:12]) by Awfulhak.org (8.12.2/8.11.6) with ESMTP id g3AEodoi029896; Wed, 10 Apr 2002 15:50:40 +0100 (BST) (envelope-from brian@freebsd-services.com) Received: from hak.lan.Awfulhak.org (brian@localhost [127.0.0.1]) by hak.lan.Awfulhak.org (8.12.2/8.12.2) with ESMTP id g3AEoZOF054636; Wed, 10 Apr 2002 15:50:35 +0100 (BST) (envelope-from brian@freebsd-services.com) Message-Id: <200204101450.g3AEoZOF054636@hak.lan.Awfulhak.org> X-Mailer: exmh version 2.5 07/13/2001 with nmh-1.0.4 To: Dag-Erling Smorgrav Cc: Bogdan TARU , freebsd-hackers@FreeBSD.ORG, brian@freebsd-services.com Subject: Re: 'rm' incompatibility with Posix.2 In-Reply-To: Message from Dag-Erling Smorgrav of "10 Apr 2002 16:42:38 +0200." Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Date: Wed, 10 Apr 2002 15:50:35 +0100 From: Brian Somers Sender: owner-freebsd-hackers@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk List-ID: List-Archive: (Web Archive) List-Help: (List Instructions) List-Subscribe: List-Unsubscribe: X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG > Bogdan TARU writes: > > On 10 Apr 2002, Dag-Erling Smorgrav wrote: > > > In my humble opinion, Solaris (and every other *nix) is broken in this > > > respect, and *BSD is correct. > > Except for OpenBDS. No NetBDS machine available, maybe some of you could > > try it on one as well? > > I don't know of any "OpenBDS" or "NetBDS", but NetBSD has the same > semantics as FreeBSD: > > des@rc4 ~% mkdir foo > des@rc4 ~% touch foo/bar > des@rc4 ~% ln -s foo baz > des@rc4 ~% ls -l baz > lrwxr-xr-x 1 des des 3 Apr 10 16:41 baz@ -> foo > des@rc4 ~% ls -l baz/ > total 0 > -rw-r--r-- 1 des des 0 Apr 10 16:41 bar OpenBSD is the same. > DES > -- > Dag-Erling Smorgrav - des@ofug.org -- Brian http://www.freebsd-services.com/ Don't _EVER_ lose your sense of humour ! To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-hackers" in the body of the message