bug#25817: Why were Gnu coding standards violated in favor of posix for 'rm -fr .'?: request for reversion of behavior

2017-02-21 Thread Eric Blake
On 02/21/2017 02:41 AM, L A Walsh wrote: > > Do you really need me to find the older version > of 'rm' in your source tree? It wouldn't hurt to point out which commit id changed behavior, if you indeed want to call that commit a regression. Being able to read the commit itself, as well as

bug#25817: Why were Gnu coding standards violated in favor of posix for 'rm -fr .'?: request for reversion of behavior

2017-02-21 Thread L A Walsh
Or are you arguing that contents within the directory should be removed, even though the directory itself cannot be? --- That's the way a recursive descent algorithm works: it processes the contents, before the parents. When it gets to the parent, it couldn't remove it, but due to