Trailing slash with symlinks and rmdir/rename

[Ross Lagerwall]

Hi,

I have noticed that if X is a symlink to a directory Y, doing "rmdir X/"
or "mv X/ Z" does not behave how I expect.

My reading of POSIX 2008 (and the behaviour of FreeBSD and OpenIndiana)
is that a symbolic link to a directory followed by a trailing slash
should behave as though it names the directory pointed to by the
symbolic link.

So while Linux gives ENOTDIR for "rmdir X/", the others remove Y.

Is this a bug?  If it is, I can have a go at writing a patch.

Regards
-- 
Ross Lagerwall
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