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bug#18491: rm -r fails to delete entire hierarchy when path goes in and


From: Paul Eggert
Subject: bug#18491: rm -r fails to delete entire hierarchy when path goes in and out of it
Date: Wed, 17 Sep 2014 13:08:15 -0700
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On 09/16/2014 10:38 PM, Gian Ntzik wrote:
It seems that
rm -r takes care to avoid such issues during recursion but fails to do
so at the very end.

A clever example but it's not clear it's a bug, or how to "fix" it. For what it's worth, Solaris 10 /bin/rm behaves the same way.





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