On Fri, Jan 04, Joerg Schilling wrote: > >> The standard says that the rm command has to use the rmdir() behavior in > >> order to remove directories. > > >Yes, this is what the standard says, here we agree. > > And as the standard does not say that the program may have nonstandard > options that remove the need to follow the rmdir() rules, it is obvious that > the rm program must follow the rmdir() rules in all cases even when > using nonstandard options.
No, where does this stand? Nonstandard options are for nonstandard cases. If you use only standard options, GNUrm is standard conform. As already written: Please show me the text in the standard, which forbids this. Thorsten -- Thorsten Kukuk http://www.suse.de/~kukuk/ [EMAIL PROTECTED] SuSE GmbH Deutschherrenstr. 15-19 D-90429 Nuernberg -------------------------------------------------------------------- Key fingerprint = A368 676B 5E1B 3E46 CFCE 2D97 F8FD 4E23 56C6 FB4B
