-----BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE----- Hash: SHA1 According to manjunath jogalli on 12/26/2006 6:15 AM: > Hi, > [EMAIL PROTECTED] home]# rmdir test > rmdir: `test': Directory not empty > > In above its saying Directory not empty to delete the folder test ok > .But My > question is if supposse the owener of the directory > and one who wants to delete the directory , in this case we can delete the > directory with out asking - rmdir: `test': Directory not empty. > May i Know Whats the reson .
coreutils isn't lying - it is impossible to rmdir a non-empty directory. Perhaps you wanted 'rm -R test' instead? - -- Life is short - so eat dessert first! Eric Blake [EMAIL PROTECTED] -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- Version: GnuPG v1.4.5 (Cygwin) Comment: Public key at home.comcast.net/~ericblake/eblake.gpg Comment: Using GnuPG with Mozilla - http://enigmail.mozdev.org iD8DBQFFkdqk84KuGfSFAYARAqhGAJ0Syavl/83fLF1t6alBHM2yc1Bj6gCfR6QS ufjEybCmJyX5+qfua0ab4cA= =FHOf -----END PGP SIGNATURE----- _______________________________________________ Bug-coreutils mailing list [email protected] http://lists.gnu.org/mailman/listinfo/bug-coreutils
