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Date:      Tue, 20 Jul 2004 08:16:20 GMT
From:      Volker Stolz <vs@FreeBSD.org>
To:        per.lanvin@inceritus.com, vs@FreeBSD.org, freebsd-i386@FreeBSD.org, freebsd-bugs@FreeBSD.org
Subject:   Re: bin/68955: #rm -f when executed on a read-only partition does not suppress the diagnostic message "# rm -f README   rm: README: Read-only file system".
Message-ID:  <200407200816.i6K8GK3n010475@freefall.freebsd.org>

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Synopsis: #rm -f when executed on a read-only partition does not suppress the diagnostic message "# rm -f README   rm: README: Read-only file system".

State-Changed-From-To: open->closed
State-Changed-By: vs
State-Changed-When: Tue Jul 20 08:13:31 GMT 2004
State-Changed-Why: 
This is a feature. From the man-page:
"-f [...] If the file does not exist, do not display a diagnostic message or modify the
                 exit status to reflect an error.
 ...the -f option only masks attempts to remove non-existent files instead of mask-
     ing a large variety of errors."


Responsible-Changed-From-To: freebsd-i386->freebsd-bugs
Responsible-Changed-By: vs
Responsible-Changed-When: Tue Jul 20 08:13:31 GMT 2004
Responsible-Changed-Why: 


http://www.freebsd.org/cgi/query-pr.cgi?pr=68955



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