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#12339
Bug: rm -fr . doesn't dir depth first deletion yet it is documented to do so.
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Reported by: Linda Walsh <coreutils <at> tlinx.org>
Date: Mon, 3 Sep 2012 00:34:02 UTC
Severity: normal
Done: Assaf Gordon <assafgordon <at> gmail.com>
Bug is archived. No further changes may be made.
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Eric Blake wrote:
...codeing stuff...
Thanks for the advice... will take it appreciatively, however
it was a few hours effort in unfamiliar code.
I certainly wouldn't write NEWS/CHANGES if I didn't have an initial
agreement that it would go in.
More to the point. Others are objecting, (I'm willing to admit
some reasonability in the objection) to changing the default behavior.
I proposed adding a ENV var that would need to be specified to get
the new behavior. Thus it *would not* be changing default behavior.
Does everyone get that... as that's been offered as a an acceptable
compromise.
Vs. the option of adding it as a long option -- that's pushing it
too far -- and doesn't work for me. as it's easier for me to maintain
and distribute a patch to rm or my own version than it is to have it
as a long option. Reason: doing it in rm OR as an ENV var does it
in one place and all my code/interactivity benefits . Doing it in
a long option -- must be paid for on each use. The cost doesn't
work for me nor would it work for anyone considering cost v. benefit.
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