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| -rw-r--r-- | NEWS | 3 | ||||
| -rw-r--r-- | src/remove.c | 10 |
2 files changed, 12 insertions, 1 deletions
@@ -10,6 +10,9 @@ GNU coreutils NEWS -*- outline -*- argument following the one containing the moved sub-tree. [bug introduced in coreutils-5.1.0] + rm -f no longer fails for EINVAL or EILSEQ on file systems that + reject file names invalid for that file system. + * Noteworthy changes in release 8.9 (2011-01-04) [stable] diff --git a/src/remove.c b/src/remove.c index f7b00c62e..381423238 100644 --- a/src/remove.c +++ b/src/remove.c @@ -378,10 +378,18 @@ nonexistent_file_errno (int errnum) exist, but be (in)accessible only via too long a symlink chain. Likewise for ENAMETOOLONG, since rm -f ./././.../foo may fail if the "..." part expands to a long enough sequence of "./"s, - even though ./foo does indeed exist. */ + even though ./foo does indeed exist. + + Another case to consider is when a particular name is invalid for + a given file system. In 2011, smbfs returns EINVAL, but the next + revision of POSIX will require EILSEQ for that situation: + http://austingroupbugs.net/view.php?id=293 + */ switch (errnum) { + case EILSEQ: + case EINVAL: case ENOENT: case ENOTDIR: return true; |