Paul Eggert wrote:
> On 09/03/2012 10:20 PM, Bernhard Voelker wrote:
>> the question is what rm should remove:
>> the symlink or the target?
>
> The convention in POSIX is that if a symlink is
> followed by '/', it's dereferenced. So this does
> appear to be a bug in coreutils 'rm'.
>
> I confirmed that the bug does not occur with
> Solaris 11 'rm':
>
> $ mkdir d
> $ touch d/file
> $ ln -s d dl
> $ ls -al *
> lrwxrwxrwx 1 eggert faculty 1 Sep 3 22:26 dl -> d
Same for FreeBSD 9.0-RELEASE-p3:
freebsd$ mkdir d; ln -s d s; /bin/rm -r s/; ls
s@
But not with busybox 1.20.0-6:
$ mkdir d; ln -s d s; busybox rm -r s/; ls
d/
I have mixed feelings, but am leaning towards the
Solaris 11/FreeBSD behavior.
