[9329] in Athena Bugs
funky rm/afs interactions
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (yandros@Athena.MIT.EDU)
Thu May 14 03:49:24 1992
From: yandros@Athena.MIT.EDU
Date: Thu, 14 May 92 03:49:11 -0400
To: bugs@Athena.MIT.EDU
Reply-To: yandros@Athena.MIT.EDU
On hodge (pmax) and bill-the-cat (rt), but not deathtongue (sun4c), I
get the following behavior:
(test is a directory in AFSland on which I have no bits whatsoever (not
even l)
For hodge and bill:
>ls -al
test: Permission denied
total 109
drwxrwxr-x 6 yandros 2048 May 14 03:18 .
drwxrwxrwx 4 root 2048 May 14 03:25 ..
drwx------ 2 16256 2048 May 13 20:29 RCS
-rw------- 1 16256 401 May 7 18:20 README.afs-new
drwx------ 2 16256 2048 May 14 03:18 TEST
-r-------- 1 16256 12156 May 11 19:20 afs-new.dvi
-rw------- 1 16256 42578 May 13 23:43 afs-new.tex
-rw------- 1 16256 42722 May 13 20:29 afs-new.tex~
-r-------- 1 16256 1364 Apr 26 16:38 sipbdoc.sty
>rm -r test
rm: test nonexistent
>rmdir test
rmdir: test: Permission denied
But for deathtongue:
>ls -al
test: Permission denied
total 109
drwxrwxr-x 6 yandros 2048 May 14 03:18 .
drwxrwxrwx 4 root 2048 May 14 03:25 ..
drwx------ 2 16256 2048 May 13 20:29 RCS
-rw------- 1 16256 401 May 7 18:20 README.afs-new
drwx------ 2 16256 2048 May 14 03:18 TEST
-r-------- 1 16256 12156 May 11 19:20 afs-new.dvi
-rw------- 1 16256 42578 May 13 23:43 afs-new.tex
-rw------- 1 16256 42722 May 13 20:29 afs-new.tex~
-r-------- 1 16256 1364 Apr 26 16:38 sipbdoc.sty
>rm -r test
rm: test: Permision denied
>rmdir test
rmdir: test: Permission denied
Notice the difference in error messages for rm -r.
-C
