permissions, but give a misleading diagnostic like this:
rm: cannot chdir from `.' to `foo': Not a directory
(remove_dir): Detect the case in which unlinking a
non-directory fails with EPERM, and give an appropriate diagnostic.
around the problem of making the translations of the adjective
`write-protected' and the corresponding run-time-variable noun
(e.g., file, directory, symlink, etc.) consistent. From Paul Eggert.
* src/remove.c (enum Ternary): Define type.
(prompt): Add a parameter. Adjust callers.
(remove_entry): Attempt rmdir here, only if a directory is
`known' to be empty. Significant rework.
(remove_dir): Propagate failure `up' also when rmdir fails.
In interactive mode, prompt only once about an empty directory.
* src/remove.c (enum Prompt_action): Define.
(prompt): Two new parameters. Adjust all callers.
Performance.
* src/remove.c (remove_entry) [!ROOT_CAN_UNLINK_DIRS]:
Don't call rmdir here.
* src/remove.c (AD_pop_and_chdir): Don't use errno (it's not valid)
in diagnostic for changed dev/ino.
(remove_entry): Tweak diagnostic.
* src/remove.c (ROOT_CAN_UNLINK_DIRS): Define.
(AD_pop_and_chdir): Propagate status as we traverse back `up' the tree.
(DO_UNLINK, DO_RMDIR): Define.
(remove_entry) [ROOT_CAN_UNLINK_DIRS]: Add code so this works also on
systems where root can use `unlink' to remove directories.
* src/remove.c: Include file-type.h.
Include file type in prompt when asking whether to remove file.
Based on a patch from Paul Eggert.
* src/remove.c (prompt): Add comment.
* src/remove.c (remove_dir): Fix another (known) leak.
* src/remove.c (hash_freer): New function.
(AD_mark_helper): Use it.
(AD_mark_as_unremovable): xstrdup the filename argument.
(remove_dir): Free directory name.
* src/remove.c (remove_entry): Fail also when trying to remove a
directory without the --recursive option.
Change a diagnostic, s/unlink/remove/, now that it can apply also
to a directory.
* src/remove.c (is_empty_dir): New function.
(prompt): New function, factored out of...
(remove_entry): ...here. Call it.
(remove_dir): Call prompt before rmdir.
* src/remove.c (remove_entry): Add support for prompting (e.g., -i).
* src/remove.h (UPDATE_STATUS): New macro.
* src/remove.c [AD_ent] (status): New member. This lets us propagate
the status from a subdirectory to its parent via AD_pop_and_chdir.
(AD_push_initial): Set it.
(AD_push): Likewise.
(remove_cwd_entries): Change return type to enum RM_status, and
adjust all callers.
(rm): Use UPDATE_STATUS rather than open-coding it.
* src/remove.c (remove_entry): New function, factored out of...
(remove_cwd_entries): ...here, and...
(rm_1): ...here.
* src/remove.c (remove_cwd_entries): Add support for --verbose.
(remove_dir): Likewise.
(rm_1): Likewise.
* src/remove.c (rm): Free cwd_state, if necessary.
* src/remove.c (rm_1): Remove now useless (always true)
user_specified_name parameter. Adjust sole caller.
* src/remove.c (rm): New function. This interface allows
one to remove multiple arguments at a time. This is important in
that it allows us to hide the remove_init/remove_fini functions and
the cwd_state parameter.
(rm_1): Renamed from rm.
(remove_init, remove_fini): Remove functions. Each body is now
part of `rm'.
out of remove_dir. The sole difference is that upon detecting a
cycle, rm now dies unconditionally. Before, in interactive mode,
it would ask the user whether to continue.
(remove_dir): Call cycle_check.
Instead, detect them lazily with just O(1) memory.
Suggestion from Andi Kleen.
(is_power_of_two): New function.
(print_nth_dir, make_active_dir_ent): Remove functions.
(hash_active_dir_ent, hash_compare_active_dir_ents): Likewise.
(remove_dir): Check for cycles here, ...
(rm): ... and don't check for cycles here.
(rm): Call fspec_get_full_mode here, rather than
fspec_get_filetype_mode. We want to get the dev/ino earlier, and
at the same time as when we get the file type, to avoid the risk
that an attacker would change e.g. a directory to a symlink before
we record its dev/ino.
removing unintended files. In one scenario, if root is removing a
hierarchy that is writable by the malicious user, that user may trick
root into removing all of `/'. Reported by Wojciech Purczynski.
(remove_dir): After chdir `..', call lstat to get the
dev/inode of "." and fail if they aren't the same as the old numbers.
(remove_cwd_entries): New parameter, `cwd_dev_ino'.
(remove_dir): Likewise.
(rm): Likewise.
Adjust all callers.
pointer. (provoke with `mkdir -m 0100 x; rm -rf x')
Upon CLOSEDIR failure, set `status' to RM_ERROR, not RM_OK.
(remove_dir): Return `status', rather than always RM_OK.
Jim Meyering