Re: [bug #17900] rm -f should ignore ENOTDIR

[Eric Blake]

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According to Jim Meyering on 10/2/2006 11:19 AM:
>> This error should be ignored.  After all, if a file name component is not a
>> directory the file cannot exist, so rm -f should handle it the same as
>> ENOENT.
>
> Thanks for reporting that.
> Here's the patch I'll check in as soon as I write the test cases:

Shouldn't this also include ELOOP?

$ ln -s loop .
$ rm -f loop/oops
rm: cannot remove `loop/oops': Too many levels of symbolic links

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