Yes there are inconsistences and surprises with trailing slash handling. For e.g rmdir doesn't follow symlink-to-dir/ on Linux. I tried to at least clarify what

Yes there are inconsistences and surprises with trailing slash handling. For e.g rmdir doesn't follow symlink-to-dir/ on Linux. I tried to at least clarify what was happening in this case recently: https://github.com/coreutils/coreutils/commit/9de1d153 https://github.com/coreutils/coreutils/commit/9de1d153