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From: | Stefan Monnier |
Subject: | bug#11194: 24.0.95; sudo rm doesn't work with absolute directory paths on the file system |
Date: | Fri, 20 Apr 2012 22:03:03 -0400 |
User-agent: | Gnus/5.13 (Gnus v5.13) Emacs/24.0.94 (gnu/linux) |
>> I'd be happy to hear of arguments in favor of the current behavior of >> eshell/sudo w.r.t builtins. > I've checked the implementation of eshell/sudo: It simply let-binds > default-directory to "/sudo:user@host:dir", and let the command like rm > run. That's why the built-in version of rm is in place. > Another implementation of sudo would not be in the spirit of eshell, I > think. Spirit or not, the resulting behavior for `sudo' makes no sense and should be fixed, Stefan
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