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Date:      Tue, 18 Apr 1995 20:07:53 +0200 (MET DST)
From:      J Wunsch <j@uriah.heep.sax.de>
To:        freebsd-current@FreeBSD.org (FreeBSD-current users)
Subject:   Re: Behaviour of rm/rmdir
Message-ID:  <199504181807.UAA04376@uriah.heep.sax.de>
In-Reply-To: <Pine.BSI.3.91.950418012258.3697H-100000@aries.ibms.sinica.edu.tw> from "Brian Tao" at Apr 18, 95 01:32:56 am

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As Brian Tao wrote:
> 
> % rm -rf testdir/
> rm: testdir/: Is a directory     <--- tell me something I don't know...
> % rmdir testdir/
> rmdir: testdir/: Is a directory  <--- argh!!!

This has been discussed to death before ``your time'', Brian.
Unfortunately, there didn't seem to be a good way to solve all the
related problems inside `namei', so the consensus happened to be
``leave it as it is now''.

-- 
cheers, J"org

joerg_wunsch@uriah.heep.sax.de -- http://www.sax.de/~joerg/
Never trust an operating system you don't have sources for. ;-)



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