[bug #17900] rm -f should ignore ENOTDIR

[Andreas Schwab]

URL:
  <http://savannah.gnu.org/bugs/?17900>

                 Summary: rm -f should ignore ENOTDIR
                 Project: GNU Core Utilities
            Submitted by: schwab
            Submitted on: Montag 02.10.2006 um 16:35
                Category: None
                Severity: 3 - Normal
              Item Group: None
                  Status: None
                 Privacy: Public
             Assigned to: None
             Open/Closed: Open

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Details:

$ touch x
$ rm -f x/y; echo $?
rm: cannot remove `x/y': Not a directory
1

This error should be ignored.  After all, if a file name component is not a
directory the file cannot exist, so rm -f should handle it the same as
ENOENT.






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