On 10 Apr 2002, Dag-Erling Smorgrav wrote:
> Bogdan TARU <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes:
> > I have attached a patch for the 'rm' untility, which strips the trailing
> > slash(es) from the path (according to Posix.2). But I think there are many
> > other utilities which need to be patched (e.g. cp, mv).
>
> Please don't. This functionality is extremely useful. Consider this:
>
> des@des ~% mkdir foo
> des@des ~% touch foo/bar
> des@des ~% ln -s foo baz
> des@des ~% ls -l baz
> lrwxr-xr-x 1 des des 3 Apr 10 16:15 baz -> foo
> des@des ~% ls -l baz/
> total 0
> -rw-r--r-- 1 des des 0 Apr 10 16:15 bar
>
> and the same scenario on Solaris:
>
> des@sex ~% mkdir foo
> des@sex ~% touch foo/bar
> des@sex ~% ln -s foo baz
> des@sex ~% ls -l baz
> lrwxrwxrwx 1 des des 3 Apr 10 16:16 baz -> foo/
> des@sex ~% ls -l baz/
> lrwxrwxrwx 1 des des 3 Apr 10 16:16 baz/ -> foo/
> [scream and curse]
> des@sex ~% cd baz
> des@sex ~/baz% ls -l
> total 0
> -rw------- 1 des des 0 Apr 10 16:16 bar
>
> In my humble opinion, Solaris (and every other *nix) is broken in this
> respect, and *BSD is correct.
Except for OpenBDS. No NetBDS machine available, maybe some of you could
try it on one as well?
bogdan
>
> DES
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> Dag-Erling Smorgrav - [EMAIL PROTECTED]
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