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Re: rm -rf error message (too many levels of symbolic links instead of p
From: |
Jim Meyering |
Subject: |
Re: rm -rf error message (too many levels of symbolic links instead of permission denied error) |
Date: |
Wed, 28 Nov 2007 08:41:52 +0100 |
Elan Ruusamäe <address@hidden> wrote:
> rm -rf gives somewhat erratic error message when removing from dir which
> write permissions are not set:
>
> address@hidden /usr/src $ uname -r
> 2.6.16.56-1smp
> address@hidden /usr/src $ rpm -q coreutils glibc
> coreutils-6.9-1
> glibc-2.3.6-14
>
> address@hidden /usr/src $ rm -rf linux-2.6.22.10_desktop
> rm: cannot remove `linux-2.6.22.10_desktop/config-smp': Too many levels of
> symbolic links
Thanks for reporting that.
That's fixed for the upcoming beta release.
If you want to try the very latest, it's here:
http://meyering.net/cu/coreutils-ss.tar.gz 8.6 MB
http://meyering.net/cu/coreutils-ss.tar.lzma 3.6 MB
http://meyering.net/cu/coreutils-ss.tar.gz.sig
http://meyering.net/cu/coreutils-ss.tar.lzma.sig