Bug 75644 – rmdir -p path/ fails

Bug 75644 - rmdir -p path/ fails

Summary:	rmdir -p path/ fails

Status:	CLOSED RAWHIDE

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Product:	Red Hat Linux
Classification:	Retired
Component:	fileutils (Show other bugs)
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Version:	8.0
Hardware:	All Linux

Priority	medium Severity medium
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Assigned To:	Tim Waugh
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Reported:	2002-10-10 12:16 EDT by Luciano Rocha
Modified:	2007-04-18 12:47 EDT (History)
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Last Closed:	2002-10-22 10:00:29 EDT
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patch introducing code that strips trailing / in remove_parents() before the loop (345 bytes, patch) 2002-10-10 12:55 EDT, Luciano Rocha	no flags	Details \| Diff
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Description Luciano Rocha 2002-10-10 12:16:34 EDT

From Bugzilla Helper:
User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (X11; U; Linux i686; en-US; rv:1.1) Gecko/20021010

Description of problem:
the command rmdir -p fails when there's a trailing slash '/' in the path.
It succeeds in deleting the last component, but complains as if it didn't exist
and aborts.

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How reproducible:
Always

Steps to Reproduce:
1.mkdir -p a/b/c
2.rmdir -p a/b/c/
3.ls a/b
	

Actual Results:  c deleted, mkdir complains c doesn't exist, aborts

Expected Results:  c deleted, b deleted, a deleted, no complain :)

Additional info:

Comment 1 Luciano Rocha 2002-10-10 12:55:45 EDT

Created attachment 79805 [details]
patch introducing code that strips trailing / in remove_parents() before the loop

Comment 2 Tim Waugh 2002-10-11 11:39:05 EDT

Thanks.

Comment 3 Tim Waugh 2002-10-22 10:00:17 EDT

Fixed package is 4.1.9-12.

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