Re: coreutils rm nul

[Christopher Faylor <cgf-no-personal-reply-please at cygwin dot com>]

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.

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.

cgf

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