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| author | Jim Meyering <jim@meyering.net> | 2003-07-27 19:47:25 +0000 |
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| committer | Jim Meyering <jim@meyering.net> | 2003-07-27 19:47:25 +0000 |
| commit | c50b21161bdf96ee7fb7064da1ae997517e360a7 (patch) | |
| tree | 0114f2d79d48fb56d5144d2409232ba302e555fd | |
| parent | e8f7ac5e252a2cce4cde0136f595c8432b97a381 (diff) | |
| download | coreutils-c50b21161bdf96ee7fb7064da1ae997517e360a7.tar.xz | |
(prompt) [! recursive]: Don't prompt about unwritable
directories, as required by POSIX. Reported by Karl Berry.
| -rw-r--r-- | src/remove.c | 7 |
1 files changed, 7 insertions, 0 deletions
diff --git a/src/remove.c b/src/remove.c index ed9938429..7c79d10bf 100644 --- a/src/remove.c +++ b/src/remove.c @@ -576,6 +576,13 @@ prompt (Dirstack_state const *ds, char const *filename, return RM_ERROR; } + if (S_ISDIR (sbuf.st_mode) && !x->recursive) + { + error (0, EISDIR, _("cannot remove directory %s"), + quote (full_filename (filename))); + return RM_ERROR; + } + /* Using permissions doesn't make sense for symlinks. */ if (S_ISLNK (sbuf.st_mode)) { |