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Re: rm 8.1


From: Andreas Schwab
Subject: Re: rm 8.1
Date: Tue, 01 Dec 2009 11:18:07 +0100
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Eric Blake <address@hidden> writes:

> It depends on how worried you are about the likelihood of distros
> distributing unpatched coreutils 8.0 and 8.1 builds, and how worried you
> are about encountering it in the wild.  In general, passing an empty file
> name to rm is never going to succeed, so there's already room for
> improvement in your scripts; so this could be the justification to make
> those changes.

Unless they use rm -f, where the error is supposed to be ignored.

Andreas.

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