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bug#34700: rm refuses to remove files owned by the user, even in force m
From: |
Nicolas Mailhot |
Subject: |
bug#34700: rm refuses to remove files owned by the user, even in force mode |
Date: |
Fri, 01 Mar 2019 15:14:43 +0100 |
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Evolution 3.31.91 (3.31.91-1.fc30) |
Le vendredi 01 mars 2019 à 07:58 -0600, Eric Blake a écrit :
>
> The behavior of -f is specified by POSIX:
> http://pubs.opengroup.org/onlinepubs/9699919799/utilities/rm.html
>
> and is specified to suppress prompts and avoid diagnostics on missing
> files, but NOT a means to force deletion via changing directory
> permissions. For that, you'd need a new option, because we can't
> change
> the long-specified meaning of -f without breaking scripts.
Well it seems people got spoiled by other OSes where read-only is not-
really-read-only-when-you-own-the-file (IIRC vi also ignores permissions
in force mode).
So could a really-force flag be added?
Regards,
--
Nicolas Mailhot
- bug#34700: rm refuses to remove files owned by the user, even in force mode, Nicolas Mailhot, 2019/03/01
- bug#34700: rm refuses to remove files owned by the user, even in force mode, Eric Blake, 2019/03/01
- bug#34700: rm refuses to remove files owned by the user, even in force mode,
Nicolas Mailhot <=
- bug#34700: rm refuses to remove files owned by the user, even in force mode, Bob Proulx, 2019/03/02
- bug#34700: rm refuses to remove files owned by the user, even in force mode, Erik Auerswald, 2019/03/02
- bug#34700: rm refuses to remove files owned by the user, even in force mode, Bob Proulx, 2019/03/02
- bug#34700: rm refuses to remove files owned by the user, even in force mode, L A Walsh, 2019/03/03
- bug#34700: rm refuses to remove files owned by the user, even in force mode, Erik Auerswald, 2019/03/03
- bug#34700: rm refuses to remove files owned by the user, even in force mode, L A Walsh, 2019/03/03
- bug#34700: rm refuses to remove files owned by the user, even in force mode, Nicolas Mailhot, 2019/03/04
- bug#34700: rm refuses to remove files owned by the user, even in force mode, Assaf Gordon, 2019/03/28