Date: Sun, 04 Feb 2001 06:46:32 +1000 From: Greg Black <gjb@gbch.net> To: hackers@freebsd.org Subject: Trailing slashes and rmdir - POLA broken Message-ID: <nospam-3a7c6e285f01132@maxim.gbch.net>
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Observe the following:
$ uname -rs
FreeBSD 4.1-RELEASE
$ ls -l
$ mkdir foo
$ ln -s foo bar
$ rmdir bar
rmdir: bar: Not a directory
So far, so good -- but look at this:
$ rmdir bar/
$ ls -l
total 0
lrwxrwx--- 1 gjb wheel 3 Feb 4 06:35 bar -> foo
$
Oops, "rmdir bar/" ended up as "rmdir foo" and left the useless
symlink bar in place.
BSD/OS gives that silly "Is a directory" error message for the
"rmdir bar/" case, but at least it does not actually do anything.
I don't think FreeBSD should do what it does. Is there any good
reason to preserve this behaviour?
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