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[bug #46305] Doing "find -L . -type d -delete" fails on symlinks to dire
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Tavian Barnes |
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[bug #46305] Doing "find -L . -type d -delete" fails on symlinks to directories. |
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Wed, 11 Jul 2018 23:45:53 -0400 (EDT) |
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Follow-up Comment #2, bug #46305 (project findutils):
I think this is an actual bug, despite the general danger of running -delete
together with -L. In this setup:
$ mkdir foo
$ mkdir bar
$ ln -s ../foo bar/baz
$ find -L bar -delete
find: cannot delete ‘bar/baz’: Not a directory
find: cannot delete ‘bar’: Directory not empty
(No -type d necessary.) strace shows that find tried to
unlinkat(AT_FDCWD, "bar/baz", AT_REMOVEDIR) = -1 ENOTDIR (Not a directory)
but "bar/baz" is not a directory so AT_REMOVEDIR is wrong.
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Tavian Barnes <=