To save time, I'll point out that the first change is right at the
end of the diff.
To save time you should have posted two seperate patches. :-)
+@table @asis
+@item ext2
+On Linux the file permissions (``attributes'') specific to the ext2
+filesystem are set using @command{cha
Toying with rm today, and came across this situation.
You've got a file called "-n". Now, rm will interperet
'rm -n' as an argument (this isn't the bug). So you go
'rm -- -n', and everything is fine.
However, since it tries to interperet these filenames
as arguments, some problems come up.
Say you
Skiboo wrote:
> Toying with rm today, and came across this situation.
> You've got a file called "-n". Now, rm will interperet
> 'rm -n' as an argument (this isn't the bug). So you go
> 'rm -- -n', and everything is fine.
Good.
> However, since it tries to interperet these filenames
> as argument
This fixes another ftw.c bug that manifested as a du failure.
It was found thanks to the quick integration into Debian's
unstable distribution.
ftp://alpha.gnu.org/gnu/coreutils/coreutils-4.5.7.tar.gz (5.7MB)
ftp://alpha.gnu.org/gnu/coreutils/coreutils-4.5.7.tar.bz2 (3.7MB)
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