$ uname -a
NetBSD IANZAG 3.99.15 NetBSD 3.99.15 (GENERIC.MPACPI) #0: Tue Jan 10 23:03:24 
NOVT 2006  
toor@NBSD1:/usr/build/obj/i386/sys/arch/i386/compile/GENERIC.MPACPI i386
$ ls -l
$ mkdir foo
$ touch foo/file1 foo/file2 foo/file3
$ ls -lR
total 4
drwxr-xr-x  2 ianzag  users  512 Jan 20 18:11 foo

./foo:
total 0
-rw-r--r--  1 ianzag  users  0 Jan 20 18:11 file1
-rw-r--r--  1 ianzag  users  0 Jan 20 18:11 file2
-rw-r--r--  1 ianzag  users  0 Jan 20 18:11 file3
$ echo > -r
$ echo > -f 
$ ls -lR
total 12
-rw-r--r--  1 ianzag  users    1 Jan 20 18:11 -f
-rw-r--r--  1 ianzag  users    1 Jan 20 18:11 -r
drwxr-xr-x  2 ianzag  users  512 Jan 20 18:11 foo

./foo:
total 0
-rw-r--r--  1 ianzag  users  0 Jan 20 18:11 file1
-rw-r--r--  1 ianzag  users  0 Jan 20 18:11 file2
-rw-r--r--  1 ianzag  users  0 Jan 20 18:11 file3
$ rm *
$ ls -lR
total 8
-rw-r--r--  1 ianzag  users  1 Jan 20 18:11 -f
-rw-r--r--  1 ianzag  users  1 Jan 20 18:11 -r
$ 

IMHO quite weird rm behavior, no? :)

// wbr