bug#10828: rm -f # no more args failure?

2021-12-14 Thread Bob Friesenhahn
On Mon, 13 Dec 2021, Karl Berry wrote: bf> I thought that systems deriving from OpenSolaris (e.g. Illumos, ... However, testing in an empty directory on a system without the upated ksh93 this looks ok to me: Bob, what you wrote before (approx. a year ago) is here:

Re: rm -f # no more args failure?

2021-12-14 Thread Bob Friesenhahn
On Mon, 13 Dec 2021, Karl Berry wrote: bf> I thought that systems deriving from OpenSolaris (e.g. Illumos, ... However, testing in an empty directory on a system without the upated ksh93 this looks ok to me: Bob, what you wrote before (approx. a year ago) is here:

bug#10828: rm -f # no more args failure?

2021-12-13 Thread Karl Berry
bf> I thought that systems deriving from OpenSolaris (e.g. Illumos, ... However, testing in an empty directory on a system without the upated ksh93 this looks ok to me: Bob, what you wrote before (approx. a year ago) is here: https://debbugs.gnu.org/cgi/bugreport.cgi?bug=42529

Re: rm -f # no more args failure?

2021-12-13 Thread Karl Berry
bf> I thought that systems deriving from OpenSolaris (e.g. Illumos, ... However, testing in an empty directory on a system without the upated ksh93 this looks ok to me: Bob, what you wrote before (approx. a year ago) is here: https://debbugs.gnu.org/cgi/bugreport.cgi?bug=42529

Re: rm -f # no more args failure?

2021-12-12 Thread Mike Frysinger
On 12 Dec 2021 16:17, Karl Berry wrote: > Does anyone here use or know of an active system where plain > rm -f > with no arguments fails? I mean, exits with bad status? > > We are considering changing Automake to assume this works, > although we'd provide for a workaround just in case,

Re: rm -f # no more args failure?

2021-12-12 Thread Bob Friesenhahn
On Sun, 12 Dec 2021, Karl Berry wrote: Does anyone here use or know of an active system where plain rm -f with no arguments fails? I mean, exits with bad status? I thought that systems deriving from OpenSolaris (e.g. Illumos, OpenIndiana, etc.) had that issue until ksh93 was fixed recently.

rm -f # no more args failure?

2021-12-12 Thread Karl Berry
Does anyone here use or know of an active system where plain rm -f with no arguments fails? I mean, exits with bad status? We are considering changing Automake to assume this works, although we'd provide for a workaround just in case, something like make RM_F="rm -f nosuchfile" But if there