>Number: 166554 >Category: bin >Synopsis: find -delete is silent when failing to rmdir nonempty >directories >Confidential: no >Severity: non-critical >Priority: low >Responsible: freebsd-bugs >State: open >Quarter: >Keywords: >Date-Required: >Class: sw-bug >Submitter-Id: current-users >Arrival-Date: Sun Apr 01 09:30:13 UTC 2012 >Closed-Date: >Last-Modified: >Originator: Richard Kettlewell >Release: >Organization: >Environment: >Description: find -delete is documented as removing files and/or directories. However since it uses rmdir() it cannot remove nonempty directories. This is fine, but it suppresses the error message in this case. This leads to considerable user confusion.
I suggest that: 1. The limitation that it can only remove nonempty directories be documented. 2. The error message not be suppressed (i.e. that the ENOTEMPTY test be removed). GNU find -delete does produce an error message in this case. -delete seems to be an extension compare to SUS find, so I don't believe there are any standards-compliance questions here. >How-To-Repeat: >Fix: >Release-Note: >Audit-Trail: >Unformatted: _______________________________________________ freebsd-bugs@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-bugs To unsubscribe, send any mail to "freebsd-bugs-unsubscr...@freebsd.org"
