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Date: Fri, 11 May 2001 10:08:29 -0700
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From: Andy Piper <andyp AT bea DOT com>
Subject: rm -rf bug?
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I don't know if this is a bug or not but I just noted that:

touch test
chmod a-w
rm -f test

works, but

mkdir test
chmod a-w test
rm -rf test

Doesn't. Its not clear to me from the manpage whether it should or not. Can 
anyone enlighten me? This is 1.3.1, ntsec.

andy


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