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Re: rm -r sometimes produces errors under NFS
From: |
Vincent Lefevre |
Subject: |
Re: rm -r sometimes produces errors under NFS |
Date: |
Mon, 5 Mar 2007 23:39:55 +0100 |
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Mutt/1.5.14-vl-r16324 (2007-03-03) |
On 2007-03-05 21:59:37 +0100, Jim Meyering wrote:
> Vincent Lefevre <address@hidden> wrote:
> > But IMHO, rm should remember that is has already done an unlink and
> > there shouldn't be a diagnostic in this case.
>
> Unfortunately it's not that easy.
> If I were to make such a change, it is quite likely
> that it would cause a real unlink failure not to be
> reported, and *that* would be serious.
IMHO, only the fact that unlink on the *arguments* could not be
performed correctly should be reported. But in a recursive rm,
I don't see any reason to report internal failure.
Moreover I don't see the point of doing two unlink's, as long as
the first unlink succeeded.
> Here, you have a work-around (use -f) that works just fine.
This is not an acceptable solution: using -f is dangerous and I
don't necessarily want protected files to be removed.
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- rm -r sometimes produces errors under NFS, Vincent Lefevre, 2007/03/05
- Re: rm -r sometimes produces errors under NFS, Jim Meyering, 2007/03/05
- Re: rm -r sometimes produces errors under NFS, Vincent Lefevre, 2007/03/05
- Re: rm -r sometimes produces errors under NFS, Jim Meyering, 2007/03/05
- Re: rm -r sometimes produces errors under NFS, Vincent Lefevre, 2007/03/05
- Re: rm -r sometimes produces errors under NFS, Jim Meyering, 2007/03/05
- Re: rm -r sometimes produces errors under NFS, Vincent Lefevre, 2007/03/05
- Re: rm -r sometimes produces errors under NFS, Jim Meyering, 2007/03/05
- Re: rm -r sometimes produces errors under NFS,
Vincent Lefevre <=
- Re: rm -r sometimes produces errors under NFS, Paul Eggert, 2007/03/05
- Re: rm -r sometimes produces errors under NFS, Vincent Lefevre, 2007/03/05
- Re: rm -r sometimes produces errors under NFS, Paul Eggert, 2007/03/06
- Re: rm -r sometimes produces errors under NFS, Jim Meyering, 2007/03/06
- Re: rm -r sometimes produces errors under NFS, Vincent Lefevre, 2007/03/06
- Re: rm -r sometimes produces errors under NFS, Jim Meyering, 2007/03/06
- Re: rm -r sometimes produces errors under NFS, Vincent Lefevre, 2007/03/06
- Re: rm -r sometimes produces errors under NFS, Jim Meyering, 2007/03/06
- Re: rm -r sometimes produces errors under NFS, Vincent Lefevre, 2007/03/06
- Re: rm -r sometimes produces errors under NFS, Jim Meyering, 2007/03/06