Re: coreutils 5.92, rm <dir> on Solaris, bad error message

[Paul Eggert]

address@hidden (Bob Proulx) writes:

> Can you strace the program and see what the
> system returns when rm tries to unlink the file?

Here's what I got on a Solaris 8 system:

lstat("junk", 0xFFFFFFFF7FFFF050)               = 0
access("junk", 10)                              = 0
getuid()                                        = 5823 [5823]
unlink("junk")                                  Err#1 EPERM

and then rm reported the EPERM message.  EPERM is bogus, but that's
what Solaris does (and what Unix has done for ages -- Linux gets it
right but Unix doesn't).  Most likely we need to redo the
error-handling case for rm.