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| author | Jim Meyering <meyering@redhat.com> | 2012-09-04 14:40:11 +0200 |
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| committer | Jim Meyering <meyering@redhat.com> | 2012-09-05 12:10:38 +0200 |
| commit | 57dd06703cb89ba53d05af95c11e89a2ca51af5c (patch) | |
| tree | ecc69c1fe877140a51d52c0d58fb018071faf107 /NEWS | |
| parent | d5719921a8968f5dc21149020450cca9b3d6c646 (diff) | |
| download | coreutils-57dd06703cb89ba53d05af95c11e89a2ca51af5c.tar.xz | |
rm: avoid bogus diagnostic for a slash-decorated symlink-to-dir
These commands would evoke an invalid diagnostic:
$ mkdir d && ln -s d s && env rm -r s/
rm: cannot remove 's': Too many levels of symbolic links
remove.c was stripping trailing slashes from "s/" before passing
the name to "rm". But a trailing slash may change the semantics,
and thus should not be stripped.
* src/remove.c (rm_fts): Do not strip trailing slashes.
* tests/rm/v-slash.sh: Adapt to new expected output.
* gnulib: Update to latest, for an improved fts.c that merely
normalizes trailing slashes.
Reported by Paul Eggert in discussion of http://bugs.gnu.org/12339
Diffstat (limited to 'NEWS')
| -rw-r--r-- | NEWS | 4 |
1 files changed, 4 insertions, 0 deletions
@@ -19,6 +19,10 @@ GNU coreutils NEWS -*- outline -*- than ignoring the -d option and failing with an 'Is a directory' error. [bug introduced in coreutils-8.19, with the addition of --dir (-d)] + rm -r S/ (where S is a symlink-to-directory) no longer gives the invalid + "Too many levels of symbolic links" diagnostic. + [bug introduced in coreutils-8.6] + ** Improvements stat and tail work better with ZFS. stat -f --format=%T now reports the |