Re: GNU rm

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From: Jarkko Hietaniemi
Subject: Re: GNU rm
Date: 00:01 on 16 Jan 2007
David Cantrell wrote:
> Galloping gay christ, how on earth can you fuck up something as simple
> as rm!?!?!?
> 
> # cd some-place-only-root-can-read
> # sudo -u peon rm /some/file/the/peon/has/permission/to/rm
> rm: cannot lstat `.': Permission denied
> 
> I can not even begin to comprehend why anyone thought that rm should be
> able to read the current working directory.

Why, probably to read a .gnurmrc in which one can in LISP-like
language define the ANSI terminal color codes to show a particular
error message in?


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