[EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:

> >And in fact, GNU utilities rock stable and pretty compatible across the
> >versions and platforms. So, I woudn't buy your statement..
>
> Except for GNU find and GNU tar which are buggy and are known to be
> buggy to the point that we can only assume that their maintainers have
> no interest in fixing them.

Add GNU rm.... it includes an option that allows you to unlink non-empty
directories as root. This is a feature that POSIX did put with care into
a separate utility called "unlink". So GNU rm includes an unneeded security
risk if you make a typo.



Jörg

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