On Oct 2, 2014, at 16:34, Bruce Evans <b...@optusnet.com.au> wrote: > There is still the larger problem with fts_read(). Applications like rm > are specified to do a complete tree walk, with special handling for files > that do not exist. If fts_read() is going to abort in the middle of a > tree walk, then it is unusable for implementing applications like rm.
+1. In this case I was doing a du -sh /* while I was running rm -Rf /rel (an
old make release directory tree). This stopped the du -sh:
$ sudo du -sh /*
8.0K /COPYRIGHT
996K /bin
218M /boot
0B /boot.config
2.5K /dev
4.0K /entropy
2.2M /etc
1.0G /home
16M /lib
280K /libexec
4.0K /media
4.0K /mnt
4.0K /proc
du: /rel/usr/ports/net/samba36: No such file or directory
du: /rel/usr/ports/net/aslookup: No such file or directory
du: /rel/usr/ports/net/p5-Net-Amazon-AWSSign: No such file or directory
du: /rel/usr/ports/net/p5-Net-Server-SS-PreFork: No such file or directory
du: /rel/usr/ports/net/lla: No such file or directory
du: /rel/usr/ports/net/sslh: No such file or directory
du: /rel/usr/ports/net/wmlj: No such file or directory
du: /rel/usr/ports/net/sendsms: No such file or directory
du: /rel/usr/ports/net/uriparser: No such file or directory
du: /rel/usr/ports/net/p5-Data-IPV4-Range-Parse: No such file or directory
du: /rel/usr/ports/net/cagibi: No such file or directory
du: /rel/usr/ports/net/fsplib: No such file or directory
du: fts_read: No such file or directory
The problem with changing fts_read to ignore ENOENT or other errors
will break compatibility with Linux [and other OSes potentially], and is not
the correct solution for this issue. I do however think that the errnos to
ignore with -f should be...
- EACCES
- ENOENT
- EPERM
… as filtering out these errors would handle the case that -f should
handle according to the manpage:
-f Attempt to remove the files without prompting for confirmation,
regardless of the file's permissions. If the file does not
exist, do not display a diagnostic message or modify the exit
status to reflect an error. The -f option overrides any previous
-i options.
Thanks,
-Garrett
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