Re: rm: avoiding a race condition on non-glibc systems

[Jim Meyering]

Paul Eggert <address@hidden> wrote:
...
> How about this patch?  It incorporates the above ideas.
>
> 2005-05-13  Paul Eggert  <address@hidden>
>
>       * m4/prereqs.m4 (gl_PREREQ): Require gl_UNLINKDIR.
>       * src/remove.c: Include unlinkdir.h.
>       (UNLINK_CAN_UNLINK_DIRS): Remove.
>       (remove_entry): Use cannot_unlink_dirs () rather than
>       UNLINK_CAN_UNLINK_DIRS.
>       * lib/unlinkdir.c, lib/unlinkdir.h: New files.
>       * m4/unlinkdir.m4: New file.

That looks fine, and works fine here.
Please commit it.

I'll see if I can find someone to test the give-up-privilege
code as root on Solaris 10.