Bug 84001
| Summary: | rm queries the user before removing symbolic links to unwriteable files | ||
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| Product: | [Retired] Red Hat Linux | Reporter: | James Prewett <download> |
| Component: | fileutils | Assignee: | Tim Waugh <twaugh> |
| Status: | CLOSED RAWHIDE | QA Contact: | Mike McLean <mikem> |
| Severity: | medium | Docs Contact: | |
| Priority: | medium | ||
| Version: | 8.0 | ||
| Target Milestone: | --- | ||
| Target Release: | --- | ||
| Hardware: | i686 | ||
| OS: | Linux | ||
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| Fixed In Version: | Doc Type: | Bug Fix | |
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| Last Closed: | 2003-02-10 22:48:31 UTC | Type: | --- |
| Regression: | --- | Mount Type: | --- |
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| oVirt Team: | --- | RHEL 7.3 requirements from Atomic Host: | |
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Seems to be fixed in coreutils in rawhide. |
From Bugzilla Helper: User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (X11; U; FreeBSD i386; en-US; rv:1.1) Gecko/20030109 Description of problem: /bin/rm behaves as if it is invoked as /bin/rm -i when removing symbolic links to unwriteable files. ~$ which rm /bin/rm ~$ touch /tmp/xxx ~$ ln -s /tmp/xxx ./xxx ~$ chmod 000 /tmp/xxx ~$ ls -ld . drwxr-xr-x 25 download users 2560 Feb 10 14:28 . ~$ rm ./xxx rm: remove symbolic link `xxx'? Please note that rm is not aliased to rm -i (nor is there a function, etc that would be changing which command actually gets used). Version-Release number of selected component (if applicable): How reproducible: Always Steps to Reproduce: 1. touch /tmp/xxx 2. ln -s /tmp/xxx ./xxx 3. chmod 000 /tmp/xxx 4. rm ./xxx Actual Results: I get the message: rm: remove symbolic link `xxx'? Expected Results: symbolic link should have been removed without prompting me Additional info: fileutils-4.1.9-11