From owner-freebsd-current Tue Apr 18 11:11:48 1995 Return-Path: current-owner Received: (from majordom@localhost) by freefall.cdrom.com (8.6.10/8.6.6) id LAA13444 for current-outgoing; Tue, 18 Apr 1995 11:11:48 -0700 Received: from irz301.inf.tu-dresden.de (irz301.inf.tu-dresden.de [141.76.1.11]) by freefall.cdrom.com (8.6.10/8.6.6) with SMTP id LAA13391 for ; Tue, 18 Apr 1995 11:10:31 -0700 Received: from sax.sax.de by irz301.inf.tu-dresden.de with SMTP (5.67b+/DEC-Ultrix/4.3) id AA23488; Tue, 18 Apr 1995 20:09:34 +0200 Received: by sax.sax.de (8.6.12/8.6.12-s1) with UUCP id UAA01774 for freebsd-current@FreeBSD.org; Tue, 18 Apr 1995 20:09:33 +0200 Received: (from j@localhost) by uriah.heep.sax.de (8.6.11/8.6.9) id UAA04376 for freebsd-current@FreeBSD.org; Tue, 18 Apr 1995 20:07:54 +0200 From: J Wunsch Message-Id: <199504181807.UAA04376@uriah.heep.sax.de> Subject: Re: Behaviour of rm/rmdir To: freebsd-current@FreeBSD.org (FreeBSD-current users) Date: Tue, 18 Apr 1995 20:07:53 +0200 (MET DST) Reply-To: freebsd-current@FreeBSD.org (FreeBSD-current users) In-Reply-To: from "Brian Tao" at Apr 18, 95 01:32:56 am Reply-To: joerg_wunsch@uriah.heep.sax.de (Joerg Wunsch) X-Phone: +49-351-2012 669 X-Mailer: ELM [version 2.4 PL23] Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 8bit Content-Length: 550 Sender: current-owner@FreeBSD.org Precedence: bulk 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. ;-)