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| -rw-r--r-- | src/rmdir.c | 18 |
1 files changed, 10 insertions, 8 deletions
diff --git a/src/rmdir.c b/src/rmdir.c index 7853aa080..dfa737ef2 100644 --- a/src/rmdir.c +++ b/src/rmdir.c @@ -86,11 +86,12 @@ remove_parents (char *path) while (slash > path && *slash == '/') --slash; slash[1] = 0; - fail = rmdir (path); - /* Give a diagnostic for each successful removal if --verbose. */ - if (verbose && !fail) - error (0, errno, _("removed directory, %s"), path); + /* Give a diagnostic for each attempted removal if --verbose. */ + if (verbose) + error (0, errno, _("removing directory, %s"), path); + + fail = rmdir (path); if (fail) { @@ -189,11 +190,12 @@ main (int argc, char **argv) /* Stripping slashes is harmless for rmdir; if the arg is not a directory, it will fail with ENOTDIR. */ strip_trailing_slashes (dir); - fail = rmdir (dir); - /* Give a diagnostic for each successful removal if --verbose. */ - if (verbose && !fail) - error (0, errno, _("removed directory, %s"), dir); + /* Give a diagnostic for each attempted removal if --verbose. */ + if (verbose) + error (0, errno, _("removing directory, %s"), dir); + + fail = rmdir (dir); if (fail) { |