Re: rm
Eric Blake <[email protected]> Sat, 24 Feb 2007 11:59:40 -0700
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-----BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE----- Hash: SHA1 According to Frederick Alexander Thomssen on 2/22/2007 11:14 AM: > > There is nothing wrong with removing $PWD. > > > OK, but what's wrong with removing . then? POSIX forbids it, since on some filesystems, . is not an actual inode, but merely a special-case artifact. And GNU coreutils respects the rules of POSIX. - -- Don't work too hard, make some time for fun as well! Eric Blake [email protected] -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- Version: GnuPG v1.4.5 (Cygwin) Comment: Public key at home.comcast.net/~ericblake/eblake.gpg Comment: Using GnuPG with Mozilla - http://enigmail.mozdev.org iD8DBQFF4Isc84KuGfSFAYARAl9aAJ4kiLavXGmna6nidyDBtb0AQlmyrQCeLo97 H5nkKyS69c4Od9Uw8fr2r1o= =ywNE -----END PGP SIGNATURE-----