On Fri, Oct 28, 2005 at 10:00:40AM +0300, M Atakan G?rkan wrote: > Would it not make more sense for rm to fail completely > if one of the files on the command line is not found? For > example if I intend to delete the file foo1 and type > rm foo 1 > and by chance have a file named "foo", it will be gone; > even though rm can tell that something is wrong since > it will fail on trying to unlink "1".
That can't work reliably due to race conditions. You can surely make up an example for yourself. ;-) Regards, Thomas _______________________________________________ Bug-coreutils mailing list [email protected] http://lists.gnu.org/mailman/listinfo/bug-coreutils
