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coreutils 5.92, rm <dir> on Solaris, bad error message
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Keith Thompson |
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coreutils 5.92, rm <dir> on Solaris, bad error message |
Date: |
Mon, 31 Oct 2005 19:48:47 -0800 |
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Mutt/1.4.1i |
On solaris 9:
% uname -a
SunOS elmak 5.9 Generic_117171-17 sun4u sparc SUNW,Sun-Blade-100 Solaris
% rm --version | head -1
rm (GNU coreutils) 5.92
% mkdir tmpdir
% ls -ld tmpdir
drwxr-xr-x 2 kst sys200 117 Oct 31 19:38 tmpdir
% rm tmpdir
rm: cannot remove `tmpdir': Not owner
Obviously "rm tmpdir" shouldn't succeed, but the error message is
incorrect (in fact, I am the owner of the directory, and both
"rmdir tmpdir" and "rm -r tmpdir" work correctly).
This problem occurs under coreutils 5.90 and 5.91, but under 5.2.1
and 5.3.0 it correctly gives:
rm: cannot remove directory `tmpdir': Is a directory
On a Linux-x86 system, this problem doesn't occur under any version
of coreutils I've tried ( 5.2.1, 5.3.0, 5.90, 5.91, 5.92); they
all correctly give:
rm: cannot remove `tmpdir': Is a directory
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Keith Thompson <address@hidden>
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