From owner-freebsd-hackers  Sat Feb  3 12:49:44 2001
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From: "Dan Langille" <dan@langille.org>
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To: Greg Black <gjb@gbch.net>
Date: Sun, 4 Feb 2001 09:49:19 +1300
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Subject: Re: Trailing slashes and rmdir - POLA broken
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On 4 Feb 2001, at 6:46, Greg Black wrote:

> Observe the following:
> 
>     $ uname -rs
>     FreeBSD 4.1-RELEASE
>     $ ls -l
>     $ mkdir foo
>     $ ln -s foo bar
>     $ rmdir bar
>     rmdir: bar: Not a directory

I'm quite sure that rm bar will work.

Have you tried rmdir ./bar?

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