On Sat, Oct 02, 2004 at 11:23:52AM +0200, Max Laier wrote: > [ Sorry to be so negative ... ] > > At very least you should consider to error out silently as POSIX requires "-f" > to be silent. Other than that you should really look into the standards and > what they way about rm and friends.
Are you sure? From the RATIONALE section of http://www.opengroup.org/onlinepubs/009695399/utilities/rm.html: "It is less clear that error messages regarding files that cannot be unlinked (removed) should be suppressed. Although this is historical practice, this volume of IEEE Std 1003.1-2001 does not permit the -f option to suppress such messages." > I am not a fan of providing seat belts like this. People concerned about this, > can "alias rm 'rm -i'" etc. etc. Others have commented like this ... > > If you still have to make this change, make it tuneable with a environment > variable (and make it default to off). I'd prefer that too. Ceri -- It is not tinfoil, it is my new skin. I am a robot.
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