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authorJim Meyering <jim@meyering.net>1999-12-18 16:00:49 +0000
committerJim Meyering <jim@meyering.net>1999-12-18 16:00:49 +0000
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downloadcoreutils-04aa739146c8a926aab6da7a046f1844e414899f.tar.xz
(wipename): When repeatedly renaming a file, making the name shorter
and shorter, skip to the next shorter length length if a rename fails (e.g. due to permission denied). Otherwise, this loop would iterate for so long that shred would appear to be stuck in an infinite loop for any but the shortest file names.
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