rmdir -p

["D'Arcy J.M. Cain" <darcy%NetBSD.org@localhost>]

Is the following the correct behaviour?

$ mkdir /tmp/rmdirtest
$ mkdir /tmp/rmdirtest/x
$ mkdir /tmp/rmdirtest/x/y
$ touch /tmp/rmdirtest/z 
$ rmdir -p /tmp/rmdirtest
rmdir: /tmp/rmdirtest: Directory not empty

There is a package (graphics/librsvg) that is failing to install
because "rmdir -p" fails trying to remove /usr/pkg/lib.  Not
surprisingly, that directory is not empty.  It seems to me that "rmdir
-p" should silently ignore directories that it cannot remove.
Certainly the package maintainer for graphics/librsvg thinks so as well.

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D'Arcy J.M. Cain <darcy%NetBSD.org@localhost>
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