From: Ross Lagerwall <rosslagerwall@gmail.com>
To: linux-fsdevel@vger.kernel.org
Cc: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org, Alexander Viro <viro@zeniv.linux.org.uk>
Subject: Trailing slash with symlinks and rmdir/rename
Date: Mon, 9 Sep 2013 23:08:50 +0200 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <20130909210850.GA9694@hobo> (raw)
Hi,
I have noticed that if X is a symlink to a directory Y, doing "rmdir X/"
or "mv X/ Z" does not behave how I expect.
My reading of POSIX 2008 (and the behaviour of FreeBSD and OpenIndiana)
is that a symbolic link to a directory followed by a trailing slash
should behave as though it names the directory pointed to by the
symbolic link.
So while Linux gives ENOTDIR for "rmdir X/", the others remove Y.
Is this a bug? If it is, I can have a go at writing a patch.
Regards
--
Ross Lagerwall
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