GNU bug report logs - #7823
Rm -f fails on non-existant file

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Package: coreutils;

Reported by: "Nadav Har'El" <nyh <at> math.technion.ac.il>

Date: Tue, 11 Jan 2011 13:28:02 UTC

Severity: normal

Done: Jim Meyering <jim <at> meyering.net>

Bug is archived. No further changes may be made.

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Message #22 received at 7823-done <at> debbugs.gnu.org (full text, mbox):

From: Jim Meyering <jim <at> meyering.net>
To: Eric Blake <eblake <at> redhat.com>
Cc: ramic <at> il.ibm.com, Nadav Har'El <nyh <at> math.technion.ac.il>,
	7823-done <at> debbugs.gnu.org
Subject: Re: bug#7823: Rm -f fails on non-existant file
Date: Wed, 12 Jan 2011 06:34:54 +0100

Eric Blake wrote:
...
> Actually, this is a bug fix, so I'm also squashing this NEWS blurb in,
> then pushing:
>
> diff --git i/NEWS w/NEWS
...
> +  rm -f no longer fails for EINVAL or EILSEQ on file systems that
> +  reject file names invalid for that file system.

Thanks to both of you.
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