Re: Is this a bug or rather a feature?

Alexander Viro (viro@math.psu.edu)
Sat, 18 Dec 1999 03:36:46 -0500 (EST)


On Sat, 18 Dec 1999 feiliu@aa.eps.jhu.edu wrote:

>
> # mkdir test
> # touch 1;touch 2;touch 3
> # mkdir hello
> # cd hello
> # rmdir ./
> # ls
> total 0
> # cd ..
> # mkdir hello
> # cd hello
> # rmdir ../
> rmdir: ..: Directory not empty
> # rm -rf ..
> rm: cannot remove `.' or `..'
> # rm -rf .
> rm: cannot remove `.' or `..'
>
> comparing the behavior of "rm -rf" and "rmdir", they are not
> very consistent.

Really? How odd - they _had_ some reason for implementing rmdir. Amazing,
isn't it? And you know what? I've heard that "and" is not the same
operation as "or"...

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