Bogdan TARU <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > I have attached a patch for the 'rm' untility, which strips the trailing > slash(es) from the path (according to Posix.2). But I think there are many > other utilities which need to be patched (e.g. cp, mv).
Please don't. This functionality is extremely useful. Consider this: des@des ~% mkdir foo des@des ~% touch foo/bar des@des ~% ln -s foo baz des@des ~% ls -l baz lrwxr-xr-x 1 des des 3 Apr 10 16:15 baz -> foo des@des ~% ls -l baz/ total 0 -rw-r--r-- 1 des des 0 Apr 10 16:15 bar and the same scenario on Solaris: des@sex ~% mkdir foo des@sex ~% touch foo/bar des@sex ~% ln -s foo baz des@sex ~% ls -l baz lrwxrwxrwx 1 des des 3 Apr 10 16:16 baz -> foo/ des@sex ~% ls -l baz/ lrwxrwxrwx 1 des des 3 Apr 10 16:16 baz/ -> foo/ [scream and curse] des@sex ~% cd baz des@sex ~/baz% ls -l total 0 -rw------- 1 des des 0 Apr 10 16:16 bar In my humble opinion, Solaris (and every other *nix) is broken in this respect, and *BSD is correct. DES -- Dag-Erling Smorgrav - [EMAIL PROTECTED] To Unsubscribe: send mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with "unsubscribe freebsd-hackers" in the body of the message
