bin/116477: rm(1): rm behaves unexpectedly when using -r and relative paths

[gavin at FreeBSD.org]

Synopsis: rm(1): rm behaves unexpectedly when using -r and relative paths

State-Changed-From-To: open->feedback
State-Changed-By: gavin
State-Changed-When: Fri Jun 27 13:51:44 UTC 2008
State-Changed-Why: 
On Solaris 8:
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gavin at sol8:/var/tmp/tmp 7% ls -l
total 4
drwx--x--x   2 gavin      gavin       512 Jun 27 14:42 test
lrwxrwxrwx   1 gavin      gavin         4 Jun 27 14:43 test2 -> test
gavin at sol8:/var/tmp/tmp 8% cd ..
gavin at sol8:/var/tmp 9% rm -r tmp/test2/
gavin at sol8:/var/tmp 10% ls -l tmp
total 2
drwx--x--x   2 gavin      gavin       512 Jun 27 14:42 test
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On Solaris 10:
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gavin at sol10:/var/tmp/tmp 7% ls -l
total 4
drwx--x--x   2 gavin      gavin       512 Jun 27 14:44 test
lrwxrwxrwx   1 gavin      gavin         4 Jun 27 14:44 test2 -> test
gavin at sol10:/var/tmp/tmp 8% cd ..
gavin at sol10:/var/tmp 9% rm -r tmp/test2/
gavin at sol10:/var/tmp 10% ls -l tmp
total 2
lrwxrwxrwx   1 gavin      gavin         4 Jun 27 14:44 test2 -> test
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So, it looks like Solaris now behaves in the same way FreeBSD does in this
case, which (along with bde@'s analysis) suggests to me that the current
behaviour is correct.

Submitter: do you still believe this to be incorrect, or can I close the PR?


http://www.freebsd.org/cgi/query-pr.cgi?pr=116477