Bug in rm -rf

[Geoffrey Odhner]

I have encountered a bug with the rm command.  If I unpack the
coreutils-5.0 in a directory named .temp (I haven't tried any other
names for this bug) and then from the parent of the .temp directory say:

    rm -rf .temp/

then I get the following message:

    rm: cannot remove directory `.temp//coreutils-5.0/lib': Directory
    not empty

Then I say:

    rm -rf .temp/coreutils-5.0/

and it succeeds.  On the other hand, if I initially say:

    rm -rf .temp

then it works sometimes.

I am running MacOS X 10.3.8 on a 667MHz PPC 15" Titanium PowerBook.  Let
me know if there is any other information I can provide to assist.

Regards,

Geoffrey Odhner