On Sat, 8 Nov 2003, Jim Meyering wrote: >> -F, --really-force >> As --force but also change permissions if necessary. > >It's feasible. >I'm not enthusiastic about this, but not strongly opposed either.
A few years ago there was a project called 'The Dammit Patch' to add a --dammit flag to ln mv and rm. I never downloaded a copy and now it has disappeared off the web. But it might have done something like chmodding directories to remove them. >Bear in mind that even with such an option, rm may still be unable >to remove a file you own due to e.g., an ACL, attributes a la >chattr, I expect that as such things are found they could be added to the -F code, so it becomes a general 'do everything possible to remove the file'. >or being on file system that's mounted read-only. Hmm, well I wouldn't expect rm to go so far as remounting the filesystem ;-). -- Ed Avis <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> _______________________________________________ Bug-coreutils mailing list [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://mail.gnu.org/mailman/listinfo/bug-coreutils
