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| From: | Andreas Schwab |
| Subject: | Re: rm should exit immediately if the user cannot write to the parent directory |
| Date: | Fri, 04 Sep 2015 08:55:26 +0200 |
| User-agent: | Gnus/5.13 (Gnus v5.13) Emacs/24.5 (gnu/linux) |
Alex Henrie <address@hidden> writes: > I'd like to see the standard changed so that once rm determines that > the file is read-only, it may optionally check that the file can > actually be deleted and skip the prompt if it cannot. That assumes that it is actually possible to determine this condition reliably. There is also the problem of TOCTOU. Andreas. -- Andreas Schwab, address@hidden GPG Key fingerprint = 58CA 54C7 6D53 942B 1756 01D3 44D5 214B 8276 4ED5 "And now for something completely different."
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