Re: rm -f # no more args failure?

[Bob Friesenhahn]

On Sun, 12 Dec 2021, Karl Berry wrote:

> Does anyone here use or know of an active system where plain
>  rm -f
> with no arguments fails? I mean, exits with bad status?

I thought that systems deriving from OpenSolaris (e.g. Illumos, 
OpenIndiana, etc.) had that issue until ksh93 was fixed recently. 
However, testing in an empty directory on a system without the 
upated ksh93 this looks ok to me:

$ rm -f ; echo $?
0
$ rm -f * ; echo $?
0

so the issue that Automake encountered before must not be exactly 
that.

Bob
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