Re: mv trailing slash warning

[Paul Eggert]

Jim Meyering <address@hidden> writes:

> Do you know of a system where `rmdir symlink/'
> removes only the referent of the symlink?

Lots of systems do that, I expect.  Solaris 10 does, for example.
This is either with Solaris rmdir or coreutils 5.3.0 rmdir.

I wouldn't be surprised if core commands other than mv and rmdir are
affected by this issue as well.  rm and ln come to mind, though I
haven't tested them.

Here's a transcript on Solaris 10 (sparc) with coreutils 5.3.0:

1018-otter $ ls -l
total 2
drwxrwxr-x  2 eggert faculty 512 2005-09-28 15:18 dir
lrwxrwxrwx  1 eggert faculty   3 2005-09-28 15:18 symlink -> dir
1019-otter $ rmdir symlink/
1020-otter $ ls -l
total 1
lrwxrwxrwx  1 eggert faculty 3 2005-09-28 15:18 symlink -> dir