From owner-freebsd-standards Thu Apr 11 19:37:58 2002 Delivered-To: freebsd-standards@freebsd.org Received: from chiark.greenend.org.uk (chiark.greenend.org.uk [212.22.195.2]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id A779737B416 for ; Thu, 11 Apr 2002 19:37:56 -0700 (PDT) Received: from fanf by chiark.greenend.org.uk with local (Exim 3.12 #1) id 16vqwK-0007y1-00 (Debian); Fri, 12 Apr 2002 03:37:28 +0100 Date: Fri, 12 Apr 2002 03:37:28 +0100 From: Tony Finch To: "M. Warner Losh" Cc: bgd@icomag.de, standards@freebsd.org Subject: Re: 'rm' incompatibility with Posix.2 Message-ID: <20020412033728.A25420@chiark.greenend.org.uk> References: <20020409112048.D75449-200000@fw.cgn.icom> <20020411.202916.81341318.imp@village.org> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Disposition: inline User-Agent: Mutt/1.2.5i In-Reply-To: <20020411.202916.81341318.imp@village.org>; from imp@village.org on Thu, Apr 11, 2002 at 08:29:16PM -0600 Sender: owner-freebsd-standards@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk List-ID: List-Archive: (Web Archive) List-Help: (List Instructions) List-Subscribe: List-Unsubscribe: X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG On Thu, Apr 11, 2002 at 08:29:16PM -0600, M. Warner Losh wrote: > > No, you removed 'b/' which is the same thing as 'b/.' which is the > directory to which 'b' points. That's BSD, and that's not likely > going to change. Too many user scripts would break, I can guarantee > that. That's also what SUS says. The relevant URL is http://www.opengroup.org/onlinepubs/007904975/basedefs/xbd_chap04.html#tag_04_11 which says : A pathname that contains at least one non-slash character and that : ends with one or more trailing slashes shall be resolved as if a single : dot character ( '.' ) were appended to the pathname. Tony. To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-standards" in the body of the message