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rm: rm -rf hyper nested dirs fails #9779

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oech3
opened on Dec 22, 2025
$ mkdir -p $(python3 -c 'print("./" + "a/" * 32768)')
mkdir: File name too long
$ rm -rf a # fails with Directory not empty. gnu is OK

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  2. collinfunk commented on Dec 22, 2025

    @collinfunk
    collinfunk
    on Dec 22, 2025

    Duplicate of #2949; a commenter there is correct, this is required by POSIX.

    It is quite important, IMO. If rm doesn't support arbitrarily long paths, you will have no way to clean them up.

  3. oech3
    closed this as a duplicateof rm doesn't really traverse directories like GNU rm at all, will fail on deeply-nested paths #2949 on Dec 22, 2025
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