On Sat, 8 Nov 2003, Jim Meyering wrote: >>>> -F, --really-force >>>> As --force but also change permissions if necessary.
>I looked into it a little, and am now even less enthusiastic. Doing >it right would mean changes that are way too invasive. They'd have >to handle failed chdir, opendir, readdir and retry after a chmod. Well - that's one way to do it, the other way is to chmod every file before doing anything with it. But that might be slow (I haven't benchmarked). -- Ed Avis <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> _______________________________________________ Bug-coreutils mailing list [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://mail.gnu.org/mailman/listinfo/bug-coreutils
