GNU bug report logs - #18491
rm -r fails to delete entire hierarchy when path goes in and out of it

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Package: coreutils;

Reported by: Gian Ntzik <gian.ntzik08 <at> imperial.ac.uk>

Date: Wed, 17 Sep 2014 19:42:02 UTC

Severity: normal

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From: Paul Eggert <eggert <at> cs.ucla.edu>
To: Gian Ntzik <gian.ntzik08 <at> imperial.ac.uk>, 18491 <at> debbugs.gnu.org
Subject: bug#18491: rm -r fails to delete entire hierarchy when path goes in and out of it
Date: Wed, 17 Sep 2014 13:08:15 -0700
On 09/16/2014 10:38 PM, Gian Ntzik wrote:
> It seems that
> rm -r takes care to avoid such issues during recursion but fails to do
> so at the very end.

A clever example but it's not clear it's a bug, or how to "fix" it.  For 
what it's worth, Solaris 10 /bin/rm behaves the same way.




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