coreutils rm nul

[Reini Urban]

Christopher Faylor schrieb:
> On Fri, Oct 29, 2004 at 06:57:40PM +0200, Reini Urban wrote:
>>Would it be appreciated if coreutils rm would be able to
>>remove special windows files, like nul, aux, com and such, if it's 
>>really a file and no device?
>>
>>I'm working on such a coreutils patch for rm(1) only, not mv(1), ln(1) 
>>or unlink(3) from cygwin1.dll.
>>Should it go to unlink(3) instead?
>>
>>If the original proposer of the coreutils package, Mark, will not revive 
>>in the next months I might be persuaded to maintain it then.
> 
> Given the number of times I've mentioned the fact that we need coreutils
> with no response, I think it is safe to assume that it is still
> unmaintained.
> 
> Unless there are objections in the next several hours this package is
> yours.

The problem is if I really want to maintain such a beast.
Having maintained a patched sh-utils at my company (restricted 
password-less su and sudo extensions, centralized logging) I know what 
will happen...

> FWIW, I think that fixing unlink so that it can remove these kinds of
> files makes more sense than patching coreutils.  But, here again, Red
> Hat would probably need an assignment from you for this type of work.

unlink nul: since only/mostly coreutils (echo > nul) create such files, 
I thought is better to safe some cycles in cygwin1.dll for every unlink 
call - it's far too slow anyway, but that's not our fault.

The assignment is already on the way. But we have weekend and our post 
does nothing until monday.
-- 
Reini Urban
http://xarch.tu-graz.ac.at/home/rurban/

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