Re: RE : RE : rm -f core cause some troubles

[Marko Lindqvist]

On 9 December 2012 01:45, Paul Eggert <address@hidden> wrote:
> On 12/08/2012 12:30 PM, PICCA Frédéric-Emmanuel wrote:
>
>> the right fix is to avoid removing core if this is a directory.
>
> Autoconf-generated 'configure' files already do that.
> That's not the issue.
>
> The only issue that has been identified is that
> 'configure' issues some annoying warnings.

 So you are saing that "we try to do the wrong thing, but as that
reliably fails, only problem are the error messages from the failure
(to do the wrong thing)"?

 As hackish solutions go, I'd consider this particular way of thinking
bad. If reliability of the normal use increases -> failure happens
less reliably when it's hackishly counted on.


 - ML