Re: [Lynx-dev] rm bug again ?

[Thomas Dickey]

On Tue, Aug 24, 2004 at 05:30:49PM -0300, Frdric L. W. Meunier wrote:
> I think it may be the same bug that removed my /bin in Cygwin 
> some time ago.
> 
> This time I tried to remove 
> file://localhost/d/cygshare/misc/Windows/Add.png
> 
> I don't know why it tried to remove /bin and didn't remove it.

There are two functions that remove things in src/LYLocal.c - remove_single()
and remove_tagged().  The former is doing a check for directory vs file, and
the latter is not.  I overlooked that when I changed the rm -rf's to rm -f's.
 
> 'r'
> Remove all tagged files and directories? (y/n)
> Alert!: Probable failure to remove /bin due to system error!
> 
> I'm attaching a trace.
> 
> 2.8.6dev.4 on Cygwin.
> 
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