Jim Meyering wrote: > Ladislav Hagara wrote: >> the behaviour of rm from last stable coreutils 8.1 is quite different >> from previous 7.6 one. > .... >> Is this a bug or a new feature of rm 8.1? > > Thank you very much for the report! > That is most definitely a bug. > > The fix has two parts: ... > in coreutils: > > rm: fix empty-name bug introduced with conversion to use fts > > While "rm ''" would properly fail, "rm F1 '' F2" would fail > to remove F1 and F2, due to the empty string argument. > This bug was introduced on 2009-07-12, via commit 4f73ecaf, > "rm: rewrite to use fts". > * NEWS (Bug fixes): Describe it. > * tests/rm/empty-name: Adjust for changed diagnostic. > (mk_file): Define, copied from misc/ls-misc. > (empty-name-2): New test, for today's fix. > * lib/xfts.c (xfts_open): Reflect the change in fts_open, now that > it no longer fails immediately when one argument is the empty string. > Assert that the bit flags were not the cause of failure. > * po/POTFILES.in: Remove xfts.c. > * THANKS: Update. > Reported by Ladislav Hagara. ... >>From b1b663c6f859e2c5008417101d16fcd57876e8ac Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001 > From: Jim Meyering <meyer...@redhat.com> > Date: Tue, 1 Dec 2009 12:02:11 +0100 > Subject: [PATCH] rm: fix empty-name bug introduced with conversion to use fts
I pushed that with one addition: it also updates gnulib to the latest, and thus pulls in the fixed fts.c.
