On 25/09/2022 00:37, Paul Eggert wrote:
> I ran into this problem when attempting to recursively
> remove a directory in a filesystem on flaky hardware.
> Although the underlying readdir syscall failed with errno == EIO,
> rm issued no diagnostic about the I/O error.

This looks good.
How about the attached to add a NEWS entry,
and add DS_EMPTY, DS_NONEMPTY enums to make the code easier to read?

thanks,
Pádraig