Hi,
On 3/2/19 07:18, Bob Proulx wrote:
Nicolas Mailhot wrote:
For their own reasons, the Go maintainers have decided the user Go cache
will now be read-only.
https://github.com/golang/go/issues/27161#issuecomment-433098406
That means cleaning up cache artefacts with rm does not work anymore
https://github.com/golang/go/issues/30502
[...]
However regardless of intentions and design if one really wants to
smash it then this is easily scripted. No code modifications are
needed.
#!/bin/sh
chmod -R u+w $1
rm -rf $1
To everyone considering the above "script": do not use it! It does not
even guard against spaces in file names. Besides being dangerously
buggy, it does not even solve the problem of deleting a file inside a
read-only directory.
I would suggest people with specific directories that inhibit deletion
of files inside although they should not (e.g. a "cache") to deliberatly
change the permissions of said directories prior to deleting files
inside. Using a script like the above, even without the basic mistakes
in the script, is quite dangerous.
Thanks,
Erik
