Re: mv trailing slash warning

[Jim Meyering]

address@hidden (Eric Blake) wrote:
...
> On a related note, why don't rm and rmdir have a --strip-trailing-slashes
> option?

Because as far as I know, there is no need.
Do you know of a system where `rmdir symlink/'
removes only the referent of the symlink?

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> Oops - cygwin has a bug in this regards:
> $ mkdir dir
> $ rmdir dir/.
> $ echo $?
> 0
> $ ls dir
> ls: dir: No such file or directory
>
> Is it worth patching coreutils rm and rmdir to work around buggy
> systems that don't follow this POSIX restriction on rmdir()?  (Meanwhile,
> I will try to get cygwin fixed.)  Should we update the coreutils testsuite?

It depends a whole lot on how invasive or complicated the patch is.
Ideally, it wouldn't change anything in src/*.c at all.