On Wed, Dec 15, 2021 at 07:53:55 -0500, Greg Troxel wrote: > I wonder if "rm -rf" should actually succeed with these modes, by doing > a chmod when necessary. It has always seem to me that -f is supposed to > really mean -f. But maybe POSIX says otherwise.
That would be a security hole, wouldn't it? There will be a window where the directory that is not supposed to be readable becomes readable. -uwe
