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bug#34700: rm refuses to remove files owned by the user, even in force m
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Eric Blake |
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bug#34700: rm refuses to remove files owned by the user, even in force mode |
Date: |
Fri, 1 Mar 2019 07:58:38 -0600 |
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On 3/1/19 6:48 AM, Nicolas Mailhot wrote:
> Hi,
>
> For their own reasons, the Go maintainers have decided the user Go cache
> will now be read-only.
> https://github.com/golang/go/issues/27161#issuecomment-433098406
>
> That means cleaning up cache artefacts with rm does not work anymore
> https://github.com/golang/go/issues/30502
>
> I understand the need to protect read only files (even though they're
> supposed to have been created by a user decision, not by user-hostile
> tools). However should not rm remove the files anyway in force (-f) mode
> without an explicit chmod first? Do it without bothering me is why -f
> exists after all.
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.
--
Eric Blake, Principal Software Engineer
Red Hat, Inc. +1-919-301-3226
Virtualization: qemu.org | libvirt.org
- 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 <=
- 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