LSB1.1: /proc/cpuinfo

Michael Stone mstone at cs.loyola.edu
Fri Jan 4 06:25:35 PST 2002


On Fri, Jan 04, 2002 at 01:34:07AM +0100, Joerg Schilling wrote:
> BTW: sorry for being off topic but does anybody know how to write a test that 
> finds that GNU rm is not UNIX-98 compliant?
> 
> From http://www.opengroup.org/onlinepubs/7908799/xcu/rm.html:
> 
> 4.If the current file is a directory, rm will perform actions equivalent to the 
> XSH specification rmdir() function called with a pathname of the current file 
> used as the path argument.
> 
> ... but GNU rm has a -d option that makes it behave like the unlink command.

If you use an out-of-standard option, why would you expect a
standards-compliant result? 

-- 
Mike Stone




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