Re: Bug#162414: coreutils: rm -rf does not delete dir/ with trailing slash

[Michael Stone]

severity 162414 normal
tags +unreproducible
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On Thu, Sep 26, 2002 at 01:30:49PM +0200, you wrote:
> I think this is important because the ability to specify directory name 
> with a trailing slash is often used.
>
> hramrach@hurd:~$ mkdir dir/
> hramrach@hurd:~$ ls -ld dir
> drwxr-xr-x    2 hramrach hramrach     4096 Sep 25 17:01 dir
> hramrach@hurd:~$ rm -rf dir/
> rm: cannot remove `dir/': Invalid argument
>                      ^   ^
> hramrach@hurd:~$ rm -rf dir
> hramrach@hurd:~$ ls -ld dir
> ls: dir: No such file or directory

cannot reproduce

(842)osgiliath:~/tmp> mkdir dir
(843)osgiliath:~/tmp> rmdir dir
(844)osgiliath:~/tmp> mkdir dir/
(845)osgiliath:~/tmp> ls -ld dir
drwxrwxr-x    2 mstone   mstone          6 2002-09-26 06:43 dir/
(846)osgiliath:~/tmp> rm -rf dir/
(847)osgiliath:~/tmp> ls -ld dir
ls: dir: No such file or directory