[Lynx-dev] Re: rm bug again ?

[Frédéric L . W . Meunier]

On Tue, 24 Aug 2004, Thomas Dickey wrote:

> On Tue, Aug 24, 2004 at 05:30:49PM -0300, Frdric L. W. Meunier wrote:
> > I think it may be the same bug that removed my /bin in Cygwin
> > some time ago.
> >
> > This time I tried to remove
> > file://localhost/d/cygshare/misc/Windows/Add.png
> >
> > I don't know why it tried to remove /bin and didn't remove it.
>
> There are two functions that remove things in src/LYLocal.c - 
> remove_single() and remove_tagged().  The former is doing a check for 
> directory vs file, and the latter is not.  I overlooked that when I 
> changed the rm -rf's to rm -f's.

I meant "I don't know why it tried to remove /bin". Forget the 
last part.

But it's very strange. Any attempt to remove that file or some 
others would result in it trying to remove /bin. It only worked 
after I restarted lynx.

> > 'r'
> > Remove all tagged files and directories? (y/n)
> > Alert!: Probable failure to remove /bin due to system error!
> >
> > I'm attaching a trace.
> >
> > 2.8.6dev.4 on Cygwin.

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