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bug#45700: rm should not prompt if ! isatty(2)
From: |
John Wiersba |
Subject: |
bug#45700: rm should not prompt if ! isatty(2) |
Date: |
Wed, 6 Jan 2021 18:56:02 +0000 (UTC) |
$ /bin/rm --version
rm (GNU coreutils) 8.30
$ uname -a
Linux xxx 5.4.0-59-generic #65-Ubuntu SMP Thu Dec 10 12:01:51 UTC 2020 x86_64
x86_64 x86_64 GNU/Linux
$ lsb_release -a
No LSB modules are available.
Distributor ID: Linuxmint
Description: Linux Mint 20
Release: 20
Codename: ulyana
$ touch asdf && chmod a-w asdf && rm asdf 2>&1 | catrm: remove write-protected
regular empty file 'asdf'? # should *not* prompt
If the prompt cannot be seen, then it can't be properly answered, so there is
no point in prompting and consequently leaving the user with a hanging command
and no way to know what's being expected of them. Instead rm should attempt to
remove the file and succeed or fail based on the result. Same for any other
commands (mv, cp) in similar situations.
I know about the options -f and --interactive=never, but they shouldn't be
needed in this case.
Thanks!
- bug#45700: rm should not prompt if ! isatty(2),
John Wiersba <=