[27000] in Athena Bugs
sun4 9.4.23: delete
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Jonathan D Reed)
Wed Nov 8 14:58:43 2006
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Date: Wed, 08 Nov 2006 14:58:13 -0500
From: Jonathan D Reed <jdreed@mit.edu>
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Type and version: Sun-Fire-V440 9.4.23 (with mkserv)
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What were you trying to do?
Delete a directory in AFS specified with a trailing slash.
What's wrong:
mass-toolpike:~%delete tmp/
delete: tmp/: Number of symbolic links encountered during path name traversal exceeds MAXSYMLINKS
What should have happened:
It should have either deleted the directory, or complained about
the fact that a specified it with a trailing slash. Given that
tab-completion results in the directory name having a trailing
slash, it would be nice if it gave a better error message.
Please describe any relevant documentation references:
It behaves correctly on Linux:
infinite-loop:~%delete tmp/
delete: tmp/: Invalid argument
It also seems to behave correctly outside of AFS on Suns:
mass-toolpike:/tmp% delete del/
delete: del/: Invalid argument
