On Sun, Nov 07, 1999 at 09:21:06PM -0700, Erik Andersen wrote:
> On Sun Nov 07, 1999 at 01:36:57AM +0100, Marcel Harkema wrote:
> > Hi,
> >
> > The 'rm' command of busybox follows links... this probably isn't a
> > feature? :)
> Hmm. I'm not seeing the problem.
[snip]
Sorry, I should've investigated a bit more (it was late ;). Anyway, it
only occurs when the file the symlink points to doesn't exist. A
typescript log is attached. So the rephrase the bug report: rm can only
remove symlinks when the symlink path is a valid one.
Hth,
Marcel
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{14:14/p4} marcel@ballistix boot-floppies/utilities/busybox > cat typescript
Script started on Mon Nov 8 14:12:24 1999
{14:12/pf} marcel@ballistix boot-floppies/utilities/busybox > ln -s foo bar
{14:12/pf} marcel@ballistix boot-floppies/utilities/busybox > ls -lad foo bar
ls: foo: No such file or directory
lrwxrwxrwx 1 marcel staff 3 Nov 8 14:12 bar -> foo
{14:12/pf} marcel@ballistix boot-floppies/utilities/busybox > ./rm bar <--- here
bar: No such file or directory
{14:13/pf} marcel@ballistix boot-floppies/utilities/busybox > ls -lad foo bar
ls: foo: No such file or directory
lrwxrwxrwx 1 marcel staff 3 Nov 8 14:12 bar -> foo
{14:13/pf} marcel@ballistix boot-floppies/utilities/busybox > touch foo
{14:13/pf} marcel@ballistix boot-floppies/utilities/busybox > ./rm bar
{14:13/pf} marcel@ballistix boot-floppies/utilities/busybox > ls -lad foo bar
ls: bar: No such file or directory
-rw-r--r-- 1 marcel staff 0 Nov 8 14:13 foo
{14:13/pf} marcel@ballistix boot-floppies/utilities/busybox > ./rm foo
{14:13/pf} marcel@ballistix boot-floppies/utilities/busybox > ls -lad foo bar
ls: foo: No such file or directory
ls: bar: No such file or directory
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{14:13/pf} marcel@ballistix boot-floppies/utilities/busybox > ^D
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