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Re: coreutils rm nul


Christopher Faylor schrieb:
On Fri, Oct 29, 2004 at 06:57:40PM +0200, Reini Urban wrote:
Would it be appreciated if coreutils rm would be able to
remove special windows files, like nul, aux, com and such, if it's really a file and no device?


I'm working on such a coreutils patch for rm(1) only, not mv(1), ln(1) or unlink(3) from cygwin1.dll.
Should it go to unlink(3) instead?


If the original proposer of the coreutils package, Mark, will not revive in the next months I might be persuaded to maintain it then.

Given the number of times I've mentioned the fact that we need coreutils with no response, I think it is safe to assume that it is still unmaintained.

Unless there are objections in the next several hours this package is
yours.

The problem is if I really want to maintain such a beast.
Having maintained a patched sh-utils at my company (restricted password-less su and sudo extensions, centralized logging) I know what will happen...


FWIW, I think that fixing unlink so that it can remove these kinds of
files makes more sense than patching coreutils.  But, here again, Red
Hat would probably need an assignment from you for this type of work.

unlink nul: since only/mostly coreutils (echo > nul) create such files, I thought is better to safe some cycles in cygwin1.dll for every unlink call - it's far too slow anyway, but that's not our fault.


The assignment is already on the way. But we have weekend and our post does nothing until monday.
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Reini Urban
http://xarch.tu-graz.ac.at/home/rurban/


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