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bug#20835: rmdir foo/. fails
From: |
Ed Avis |
Subject: |
bug#20835: rmdir foo/. fails |
Date: |
Wed, 17 Jun 2015 10:24:13 +0000 (UTC) |
User-agent: |
Loom/3.14 (http://gmane.org/) |
% mkdir foo
% rmdir foo/.
rmdir: failed to remove ‘foo/.’: Invalid argument
% rmdir --version
rmdir (GNU coreutils) 8.23
Copyright (C) 2014 Free Software Foundation, Inc.
License GPLv3+: GNU GPL version 3 or later <http://gnu.org/licenses/gpl.html>.
This is free software: you are free to change and redistribute it.
There is NO WARRANTY, to the extent permitted by law.
Written by David MacKenzie.
I suggest that 'rmdir foo/.' should be equivalent to 'rmdir foo'.
Strangely, 'rmdir foo/..' does work as expected (that is, it fails with
'Directory not empty').
Note that Emacs command completion (in shell-mode) will complete foo to foo/.
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- bug#20835: rmdir foo/. fails,
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