X-Recipient: archive-cygwin@delorie.com X-SWARE-Spam-Status: No, hits=-2.0 required=5.0 tests=AWL,BAYES_00,SARE_MSGID_LONG40,SPF_PASS X-Spam-Check-By: sourceware.org Message-ID: Date: Tue, 13 Jan 2009 13:24:36 -0500 From: "Mark J. Reed" To: cygwin@cygwin.com Subject: Re: rm seems to fail In-Reply-To: <5520d94f0901130916l7669d8capa39587365237da4f@mail.gmail.com> MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=UTF-8 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Content-Disposition: inline References: <5520d94f0901130852l310a9dfdk9821c26458d8d5e@mail.gmail.com> <5520d94f0901130901y66a7df50yca7e586998a3bea3@mail.gmail.com> <5520d94f0901130916l7669d8capa39587365237da4f@mail.gmail.com> X-IsSubscribed: yes Mailing-List: contact cygwin-help@cygwin.com; run by ezmlm Precedence: bulk List-Id: List-Unsubscribe: List-Subscribe: List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: , Sender: cygwin-owner@cygwin.com Mail-Followup-To: cygwin@cygwin.com Delivered-To: mailing list cygwin@cygwin.com On Tue, Jan 13, 2009 at 12:16 PM, greenup wrote: > oh, I forgot to mention: right after doing the rm, the return code is > success, even though it failed to actually remove the file. rm with -f is silent about certain types of errors, usually of the "file doesn't exist" variety. So that sounds like rm thinks that either it successfully deleted the file or it didn't exist in the first place. Is rm without -f able to remove goo/foo (after you confirm at the prompt)? If not, does it generate an error indication? -- Mark J. Reed -- Unsubscribe info: http://cygwin.com/ml/#unsubscribe-simple Problem reports: http://cygwin.com/problems.html Documentation: http://cygwin.com/docs.html FAQ: http://cygwin.com/faq/