"Donald Dylla" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > rm can be put into a recursive loop that it never exits as it tries to remove a > directory that contains a mount point. > > mkdir /tmp/test > mkdir /tmp/test/mnt > > mount baleo:/mnt/baleo /tmp/test/mnt > > rm -rfv /tmp/test
Thanks for the report. Unfortunately, I can't reproduce that on a GNU/Linux system. I get a failure, which seems reasonable: # rm -rfv /tmp/t2 removing all entries of directory `/tmp/t2' removing the directory itself: `/tmp/t2' rm: cannot remove directory `/tmp/t2': Device or resource busy [Exit 1] Please tell me what version of rm you're using (i.e., run rm --version), and what OS is on your system. If your version of rm isn't 4.1.3, please see if you can reproduce the problem with the newest one: ftp://alpha.gnu.org/gnu/fetish/fileutils-4.1.3.tar.gz Also, please include at least the output of your rm command. Better would be a syscall trace a la strace, truss, ptrace, or whatever it's called on your system. _______________________________________________ Bug-fileutils mailing list [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://mail.gnu.org/mailman/listinfo/bug-fileutils
