Nicolas Mailhot wrote: > For their own reasons, the Go maintainers have decided the user Go cache > will now be read-only. > https://github.com/golang/go/issues/27161#issuecomment-433098406
Not wise. > That means cleaning up cache artefacts with rm does not work anymore > https://github.com/golang/go/issues/30502 Users count upon non-writable directories to prevent files from being deleted. I am confident that changing rm to delete contents of non-writable directories would produce bug reports. And worse it would have resulted in data loss in those cases. Weigh data loss against inconvenience intentionally created. They have intentionally done this to prevent actions such as rm -rf on the path. That is the entire purpose of making directories read-only, to prevent the contents from being removed or renamed. However regardless of intentions and design if one really wants to smash it then this is easily scripted. No code modifications are needed. #!/bin/sh chmod -R u+w $1 rm -rf $1 Bob