--- fileutils-4.1.orig/src/remove.c	Mon May  6 19:32:06 2002
+++ fileutils-4.1/src/remove.c	Mon May  6 19:38:37 2002
@@ -930,6 +930,15 @@ The following two directories have the s
       int need_save_cwd = user_specified_name;
       enum RM_status status;
 
+#ifdef S_ITRANS
+      if (filetype_mode & S_ITRANS)
+	{
+	  error(0, 0, _("not removing directory translator %s"),
+		quote (full_filename (fs->filename)));
+	  return RM_OK;
+	}
+#endif
+
       if (need_save_cwd)
 	need_save_cwd = (strchr (fs->filename, '/') != NULL);