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Date:      22 Sep 1997 13:59:44 +0200
From:      Wolfram Schneider <wosch@cs.tu-berlin.de>
To:        Keith Mitchell <kmitch@weenix.guru.org>
Cc:        current@freebsd.org
Subject:   Re: rm -fr behavior changed?
Message-ID:  <p1iafh5tv7z.fsf@panke.panke.de>
In-Reply-To: Keith Mitchell's message of Mon, 22 Sep 1997 01:14:12 -0400 (EDT)
References:  <199709220514.BAA07589@weenix.guru.org>

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Keith Mitchell <kmitch@weenix.guru.org> writes:
> I recently upgraded my system to -current and noticed that the
> behavior in rm -fr has changed in the past month.

Known problem. Bug id bin/4593 

Wolfram

> rm -fr /tmp/dir/
> 
> and
> 
> rm -fr /tmp/dir
> 
> Used to work just fine.  Now, I get a Operation not Permitted error message
> on the top one for every file in the directory.  The bottom one continues
> to work just fine though.
> 
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