Hello, realizing that "rm -rf" fails for directories that were "chmod a-w", is propose an extension for rm to do what a user could do when deleting. That is, if the directory is write-protected, but the user own it, chmod u+w and then delete it. A new option like "-y" (be repeatedly affirmative) could be used.
The only problem is if the unlink fails at some point (for various reasons): Should the chmod to the directory be undone? Should "." be affected? For the latter I think "no", because it possibly will cause a surprise to the user when doing "rm -rfy dir". Of course this needs some more thoughts, but having to "chmod -R u+w dir" first seems to be against the idea of "-f". Regards, Ulrich _______________________________________________ Bug-fileutils mailing list [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://mail.gnu.org/mailman/listinfo/bug-fileutils
