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Re: Heads up: objdir is now rm -rf resistent



Andreas Gustafsson <gson%gson.org@localhost> writes:

> maya%NetBSD.org@localhost wrote:
>> I hope fixing this is enough to fix all the cryptic issues.
>
> The build is now fixed, but I still need to give the testbeds the
> ability to automatically remove objdirs containing non-writable
> directories, because otherwise they will get stuck whenever they
> decide to build a historic version from the affected time range.
>
> This is also going to be an ongoing pitfall for anyone building
> historic versions, for example when bisecting.

I wonder if "rm -rf" should actually succeed with these modes, by doing
a chmod when necessary.  It has always seem to me that -f is supposed to
really mean -f.  But maybe POSIX says otherwise.

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