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Date:      Fri, 12 Nov 2004 14:09:50 -0500 (EST)
From:      Garrett Wollman <wollman@khavrinen.lcs.mit.edu>
To:        Jordan Hubbard <jkh@brierdr.com>
Cc:        standards@freebsd.org
Subject:   Any objections to the following?
Message-ID:  <200411121909.iACJ9o5t093134@khavrinen.lcs.mit.edu>
In-Reply-To: <E6821B92-34DC-11D9-893C-000393DACFAC@brierdr.com>
References:  <E6821B92-34DC-11D9-893C-000393DACFAC@brierdr.com>

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<<On Fri, 12 Nov 2004 10:58:54 -0800, Jordan Hubbard <jkh@brierdr.com> said:

> This allows:

> 	rm -rf ""

> To behave the same as:

> 	rm -f ""

> Which is to say that no diagnostic will be emitted if you're forcing 
> the operation (and ignoring errors).

According to the Standard, only [ENOENT] diagnostics should be
suppressed.

-GAWollman



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