On Mon, May 31, 2004 at 10:03:23AM +0000, Martin J. Laubach wrote:
> |  bash-2.05b# mkdir -p foo/foo/foo
> |  bash-2.05b# rm -rf foo
> |  rm: foo/foo: Operation not permitted
> |  rm: foo: Directory not empty
> 
>   I just tried from my OS-X box to my 1.6 file server:
> 
> [celery:~/asparagus] mjl% mkdir -p foo/foo/foo
> [celery:~/asparagus] mjl% rm -rf foo
> [celery:~/asparagus] mjl% 
> 
>   So at least it doesn't look as if it were a server side bug?

it's more of a base incompatibility between differing implementations.

http://mail-index.netbsd.org/current-users/2004/05/25/0013.html

the microsoft NFS server apparently expects the client to perform the
recursion necessary to support rm -r, and the NetBSD NFS client isn't
properly handling that case.

I imagine the checks necessary for client-side recursion could be added;
perhaps there's already existing hooks for it?

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