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From: njs3@doc.ic.ac.uk (Niall Smart)
Date: Mon, 8 Dec 1997 14:26:33 +0000
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Subject: confusing rm/rmdir error messages
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Hi,

Is this considered normal:

[root@sprite56 /usr]# ln -s /sunsite/packages/FreeBSD/packages-current/ packages
[root@sprite56 /usr]# ls -lad packages/
drwxr-xr-x  45 root  wheel  8192 Dec  8 13:05 packages/
[root@sprite56 /usr]# ls -lad packages 
lrwxrwxrwx  1 root  wheel  43 Dec  8 14:19 packages -> /sunsite/packages/FreeBSD/packages-current/
[root@sprite56 /usr]# rm packages/
rm: packages/: is a directory			/* its a directory! */
[root@sprite56 /usr]# rmdir packages/
rmdir: packages: Not a directory		/* its not a directory! */
[root@sprite56 /usr]# rmdir packages
rmdir: packages: Not a directory
[root@sprite56 /usr]# rm packages 
[root@sprite56 /usr]# ls -lad packages
ls: packages: No such file or directory

It seems like rmdir is stripping off any trailing '/' from the pathname.
I don't think it should do that.

Thanks,

Niall