Elan Ruusamäe <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> rm -rf gives somewhat erratic error message when removing from dir which 
> write permissions are not set:
>
> [EMAIL PROTECTED] /usr/src $ uname -r
> 2.6.16.56-1smp
> [EMAIL PROTECTED] /usr/src $ rpm -q coreutils glibc
> coreutils-6.9-1
> glibc-2.3.6-14
>
> [EMAIL PROTECTED] /usr/src $ rm -rf linux-2.6.22.10_desktop
> rm: cannot remove `linux-2.6.22.10_desktop/config-smp': Too many levels of 
> symbolic links

Thanks for reporting that.
That's fixed for the upcoming beta release.
If you want to try the very latest, it's here:

  http://meyering.net/cu/coreutils-ss.tar.gz        8.6 MB
  http://meyering.net/cu/coreutils-ss.tar.lzma      3.6 MB
  http://meyering.net/cu/coreutils-ss.tar.gz.sig
  http://meyering.net/cu/coreutils-ss.tar.lzma.sig


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