Bug 1905463

Summary:	"rm -rf *" performs an extra skip when it encounters an immutable empty directory
Product:	Red Hat Enterprise Linux 7	Reporter:	nishant.nayan
Component:	coreutils	Assignee:	Kamil Dudka <kdudka>
Status:	CLOSED WONTFIX	QA Contact:	Radka Brychtova <rskvaril>
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Version:	7.0	CC:	kdudka
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Description nishant.nayan 2020-12-08 12:14:58 UTC

The 'rm' utility' is skipping a mutable file when it encounters an immutable empty
directory (while deleting group of files and directories). Version(/8.22-18.0.1)/

Description: The bug is that rm skips an extra file while it encounters
an immutable empty directory. For example, on doing an "rm -rf *" on "a b c foo x y z",
where a,b,c,x,y,z are mutable files and foo is an immutable empty directory, the output was "foo x", as soon as rm encounters an immutable directory, it skips it's immediate next file(x in this case) and deletes all other files. 

Actual results: foo x


Expected results: foo

Refer upstream patch : https://git.savannah.gnu.org/gitweb/?p=coreutils.git;a=commitdiff;h=6bf108358

Comment 2 Kamil Dudka 2020-12-08 13:08:54 UTC

Thank you for reporting the bug!  However, Red Hat Enterprise Linux 7 does not receive y-stream updates any more.  If the fix is important for your business, please escalate it through product support.

Comment 4 Kamil Dudka 2021-05-06 14:09:34 UTC

There is no business justification to fix this in RHEL-7.9.z.  The fix will eventually be provided in a minor update of RHEL-8.