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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