Re: rmdir -p can't handle trailing slashes

[Jim Meyering]

Hi Andreas!

Thank you!
I've just applied your patch and added a test.
Both will be in the upcoming coreutils-4.5.2 release.
(btw, the bug-coreutils mailing list works, now)

Andreas Schwab <address@hidden> wrote:
> $ mkdir -p a/b/c/
> $ rmdir -p a/b/c/
> rmdir: `a/b/c': No such file or directory
>
> Andreas.
>
> 2002-09-06  Andreas Schwab  <address@hidden>
>
>       * src/rmdir.c (remove_parents): Strip trailing slashes.
>
> --- coreutils-4.5.1/src/rmdir.c
> +++ coreutils-4.5.1/src/rmdir.c
> @@ -98,6 +98,7 @@
>    char *slash;
>    int fail = 0;
>  
> +  strip_trailing_slashes (path);
>    while (1)
>      {
>        slash = strrchr (path, '/');
>
> -- 
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