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-rw-r--r--NEWS4
m---------gnulib0
-rw-r--r--src/remove.c3
-rwxr-xr-xtests/rm/v-slash.sh2
4 files changed, 5 insertions, 4 deletions
diff --git a/NEWS b/NEWS
index f3874fd22..a848ffed7 100644
--- a/NEWS
+++ b/NEWS
@@ -19,6 +19,10 @@ GNU coreutils NEWS -*- outline -*-
than ignoring the -d option and failing with an 'Is a directory' error.
[bug introduced in coreutils-8.19, with the addition of --dir (-d)]
+ rm -r S/ (where S is a symlink-to-directory) no longer gives the invalid
+ "Too many levels of symbolic links" diagnostic.
+ [bug introduced in coreutils-8.6]
+
** Improvements
stat and tail work better with ZFS. stat -f --format=%T now reports the
diff --git a/gnulib b/gnulib
-Subproject 68f693ff1db33bf24695f0f42c62e7801966fd0
+Subproject 3a9002d3cc63da7110f133b1040d2d2b0aad830
diff --git a/src/remove.c b/src/remove.c
index 69faae6de..847a5cc4a 100644
--- a/src/remove.c
+++ b/src/remove.c
@@ -433,9 +433,6 @@ rm_fts (FTS *fts, FTSENT *ent, struct rm_options const *x)
/* Perform checks that can apply only for command-line arguments. */
if (ent->fts_level == FTS_ROOTLEVEL)
{
- if (strip_trailing_slashes (ent->fts_path))
- ent->fts_pathlen = strlen (ent->fts_path);
-
/* If the basename of a command line argument is "." or "..",
diagnose it and do nothing more with that argument. */
if (dot_or_dotdot (last_component (ent->fts_accpath)))
diff --git a/tests/rm/v-slash.sh b/tests/rm/v-slash.sh
index 504f4ffb8..ec77bd063 100755
--- a/tests/rm/v-slash.sh
+++ b/tests/rm/v-slash.sh
@@ -26,7 +26,7 @@ touch a/x || framework_failure_
rm --verbose -r a/// > out || fail=1
cat <<\EOF > exp || fail=1
removed 'a/x'
-removed directory: 'a'
+removed directory: 'a/'
EOF
compare exp out || fail=1