Follow-up Comment #6, patch #3596 (project coreutils):
This is an enhancement for the actual implementation for the
'--group-directories-first' option in ls, so that symbolic links to
directories are handled as directories with this option enabled.
(file #11524)
[EMAIL PROTECTED] (Matthew M. Boedicker) wrote:
The --preserve-root failsafe in chown, chmod, etc. does not exit when it
should. It prints a warning and continues to recurse. ROOT_DEV_INO_WARN
should pass a non-zero value as the first argument to error() to exit.
Thanks again. I've fixed it.
I couldn't think of any other way to test for this bug/fix.
Using gdb and counting open_safer breakpoints is ugly and a little
fragile -- and the test is skipped when there are no debugging symbols.
But it's a lot better than nothing.
Ideas for improvement welcome.
2006-12-14 Jim Meyering
Hi,
I'm a fairly new Linux user and computer literate, but not a geek.
I've tried to remove an empty directory as follows (filename being the name
of the directory that I'm trying to delete):
rmdir filename (error message - directory not empty)
rmdir -rf filename (error message -
M. David Frost wrote:
rmdir filename (error message - directory not empty)
rmdir -rf filename (error message - invalid option -- r)
When I type:
dir filename
the directory is empty.
It may not be empty. ls doesn't show everything by default. Files that
begin with . for
