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Date:      Mon, 10 Nov 2003 01:40:18 -0800 (PST)
From:      Guido van Rooij <guido@FreeBSD.org>
To:        src-committers@FreeBSD.org, cvs-src@FreeBSD.org, cvs-all@FreeBSD.org
Subject:   cvs commit: src/bin/rm rm.c
Message-ID:  <200311100940.hAA9eIlE099055@repoman.freebsd.org>

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guido       2003/11/10 01:40:18 PST

  FreeBSD src repository

  Modified files:
    bin/rm               rm.c 
  Log:
  When the P flag is set (i.e. Overwrite regular files before deleting them),
  do only unlink the file if we could indeed overwrite the file.
  Old behaviour: rm -P /tmp/foo (foo mode 0444) would NOT overwrite foo,
  but still delete it (with a warning: rm: foo: Permission denied)
  New behaviour: Just the EPERM warning, but no deletion
  
  Reviewed by:    bde
  
  Revision  Changes    Path
  1.45      +14 -8     src/bin/rm/rm.c



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