[klibc] [PATCH] simple rm command
Olaf Hering
olh at suse.de
Sun Sep 5 22:11:25 PDT 2004
On Sun, Sep 05, Russell King wrote:
> On Sun, Sep 05, 2004 at 08:16:20PM +0200, Olaf Hering wrote:
> > 'rm -rf /' for klibc
> > Doesnt comply to the standard, but does the job.
> > http://www.opengroup.org/onlinepubs/009695399/utilities/rm.html
>
> I'd argue that any standard utilities should comply with POSIX - that
> is the approach I took with all the other klibc support utilities.
>
> The reason I took this approach is that I've used busybox. It's
> extremely annoying and frustrating when you come across commands
> which refuse to behave correctly for one reason or another.
Do we need the -i flag in klibc? Thats the only missing piece, beside
the 'shall be able to descend to arbitrary depths in a file hierarchy,
and shall not fail due to path length limitations' feature.
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