Linda Walsh <coreut...@tlinx.org> writes: > In looking at the 2013 specification for rm > (http://pubs.opengroup.org/onlinepubs/9699919799/utilities/rm.html), > > it no longer says to stop processing if the path basename equals > "." or "..".
"If either of the files dot or dot-dot are specified as the basename portion of an operand (that is, the final pathname component) or if an operand resolves to the root directory, rm shall write a diagnostic message to standard error and do nothing more with such operands." Andreas. -- Andreas Schwab, sch...@linux-m68k.org GPG Key fingerprint = 58CA 54C7 6D53 942B 1756 01D3 44D5 214B 8276 4ED5 "And now for something completely different."
