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| author | Jim Meyering <meyering@redhat.com> | 2008-03-31 13:40:54 +0200 |
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| committer | Jim Meyering <meyering@redhat.com> | 2008-03-31 13:46:34 +0200 |
| commit | f433c3835fa7faadaff73526ce429b1140bdbc5e (patch) | |
| tree | 566ab5a6b02fc403f15fbeccaa6da7cbe4dafbea /NEWS | |
| parent | 0d34887fe9912b65c1223cfefcaa9bf71c89b40c (diff) | |
| download | coreutils-f433c3835fa7faadaff73526ce429b1140bdbc5e.tar.xz | |
"rm -r DIR" would mistakenly prompt about very long names
* src/remove.c (write_protected_non_symlink): Return 0(-1) when
euidaccess_stat pronounces a writable(not-writable) file, not -1(0).
* tests/rm/deep-2: New file. Test for the above-fixed bug.
* tests/rm/Makefile.am (TESTS): Add deep-2.
Discovered while reviewing this change:
http://thread.gmane.org/gmane.comp.gnu.coreutils.bugs/13071
Diffstat (limited to 'NEWS')
| -rw-r--r-- | NEWS | 3 |
1 files changed, 3 insertions, 0 deletions
@@ -30,6 +30,9 @@ GNU coreutils NEWS -*- outline -*- at the end of the option argument to --flag-truncation=STRING (-F), --word-regexp=REGEXP (-W), or --sentence-regexp=REGEXP (-S). + "rm -r DIR" would mistakenly declare to be "write protected" -- and + prompt about -- full DIR-relative names longer than MIN (PATH_MAX, 8192). + "rmdir --ignore-fail-on-non-empty" detects and ignores the failure in more cases when a directory is empty. |