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Bug 1905807

Summary: 'rm' skips one file after failing to delete an empty directory
Product: Red Hat Enterprise Linux 8 Reporter: Sushmita Bhattacharya <sushmita.bhattacharya>
Component: coreutilsAssignee: Kamil Dudka <kdudka>
Status: CLOSED DUPLICATE QA Contact: Radka Brychtova <rskvaril>
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Version: 8.0CC: kdudka
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Description Sushmita Bhattacharya 2020-12-09 06:13:53 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 1 Kamil Dudka 2020-12-09 08:03:02 UTC
Thanks!  We already have a RHEL-8 bug for this...

*** This bug has been marked as a duplicate of bug 1905481 ***