Alex Henrie <[email protected]>
writes:

> I'd like to see the standard changed so that once rm determines that
> the file is read-only, it may optionally check that the file can
> actually be deleted and skip the prompt if it cannot.

That assumes that it is actually possible to determine this condition
reliably.  There is also the problem of TOCTOU.

Andreas.

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