bug#21084: rm appears to no longer be POSIX compliant (as of 2013 edition) re: deleting empty dirs and files under <path>/.

[Paul Eggert]

Linda Walsh wrote:
>     Since there is no opposition to this, I presume, all you need now
> is a patch?

My impression is that hardly anybody cares about this corner case.

How about the following idea instead?  We could have --no-preserve-root also 
skip the special treatment for '.' and '..'.  That way, we shouldn't need to add 
an option.