On 9/25/07, Oliver Fromme <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Torfinn Ingolfsen wrote: > > Oliver Fromme wrote: > > > > > $ cd /tmp > > > $ mkdir -p foo/var > > > $ cd foo/bar > > > $ rm -rf ../ > > > rm: ../: Invalid argument > > > $ rm -rf ../ > > > $ > > > [...] > > Quick testing here: > > [...] > > Ok, I think it is a bug. > > Yes, I think so, too. > > By the way, an additional confusion is that ".." and "../" > are handled differently. Specifying ".." always leads to > this message: > > rm: "." and ".." may not be removed > > and nothing is actually removed. It is confusing that > adding a slash leads to a different error message _and_ > removal of the contents of the parent directory. Clearly > a POLA violation.
Maybe. But I expect that the behavior for "rm -rf .." is there so that things don't get REALLY astonishing when you do "rm -rf *". Having a different behavior for "rm -rf ../" may have been intentional on someone's part so you can override the protection if you really want to. - Bob _______________________________________________ freebsd-stable@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-stable To unsubscribe, send any mail to "[EMAIL PROTECTED]"
