Valery Ushakov <uwe%stderr.spb.ru@localhost> writes: > On Wed, Dec 15, 2021 at 07:53:55 -0500, Greg Troxel wrote: > >> 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. > > That would be a security hole, wouldn't it? There will be a window > where the directory that is not supposed to be readable becomes > readable. That's a good point. I guess this is just intractable in the Unix filesystem model.
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