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| author | Paul Eggert <eggert@cs.ucla.edu> | 2004-08-09 23:34:49 +0000 |
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| committer | Paul Eggert <eggert@cs.ucla.edu> | 2004-08-09 23:34:49 +0000 |
| commit | 1def589bea0974dc92183b99efc18545c8f88c33 (patch) | |
| tree | b938a7029a580931372629ec97e367dd2ce23dd0 | |
| parent | e077b28593c58a1d1215d234740e5688de8f48d5 (diff) | |
| download | coreutils-1def589bea0974dc92183b99efc18545c8f88c33.tar.xz | |
(wipename): Work even if the directory is writeable
and not readable. Prefer write access, since this should work
better with fdatasync.
| -rw-r--r-- | src/shred.c | 5 |
1 files changed, 4 insertions, 1 deletions
diff --git a/src/shred.c b/src/shred.c index 4d3b18d5e..d9da0bb7b 100644 --- a/src/shred.c +++ b/src/shred.c @@ -1434,10 +1434,13 @@ wipename (char *oldname, char const *qoldname, struct Options const *flags) size_t len = base_len (base); char *dir = dir_name (newname); char *qdir = xstrdup (quotearg_colon (dir)); - int dir_fd = open (dir, O_RDONLY | O_NOCTTY); bool first = true; bool ok = true; + int dir_fd = open (dir, O_WRONLY | O_NOCTTY); + if (dir_fd < 0) + dir_fd = open (dir, O_RDONLY | O_NOCTTY); + if (flags->verbose) error (0, 0, _("%s: removing"), qoldname); |