bug#15926: RFE: unlink command already uses 'unlink' call; make 'rm' use (original) (raw)

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From: Pádraig Brady
Subject: bug#15926: RFE: unlink command already uses 'unlink' call; make 'rm' use 'remove' call
Date: Tue, 19 Nov 2013 12:15:25 +0000
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On 11/19/2013 11:56 AM, Linda Walsh wrote:

Since there is already an unlink command that corresponds to unlinking a file, but there seems to be no command corresponding to the POSIX remove command, it seems upgrading 'rm' to use the 'remove' POSIX call would be a beneficial move of all the recent POSIX changes.

So how about upgrading 'rm' to use the remove function so it would work on empty directories as well.

Well we have the -d option to rm to explicitly do that. That's a fairly fundamental change that would have backwards compat issues. POSIX is explicit in the handling of directories also: http://pubs.opengroup.org/onlinepubs/9699919799/utilities/rm.html

thanks, Pádraig.