git: 8b92a6ad597e - main - rm(1): remove whiteouts when forcibly removing directories
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Date: Sun, 09 Nov 2025 03:49:04 UTC
The branch main has been updated by jah:
URL: https://cgit.FreeBSD.org/src/commit/?id=8b92a6ad597e224b616a8b1d6983f3b55c85308e
commit 8b92a6ad597e224b616a8b1d6983f3b55c85308e
Author: Jason A. Harmening <jah@FreeBSD.org>
AuthorDate: 2025-11-08 04:23:02 +0000
Commit: Jason A. Harmening <jah@FreeBSD.org>
CommitDate: 2025-11-09 03:47:15 +0000
rm(1): remove whiteouts when forcibly removing directories
Commit 2ed053cde5 changed UFS' VOP_RMDIR() behavior to no longer
ignore whiteouts when determining whether a directory is empty,
unless explicitly requested by the caller. However, this also
necessitates a change to rm(1) to avoid breaking the expected
behavior when forcibly removing directory hierarchies via `rm -fr`.
I neglected to make this follow-on change despite discussing it
in the review for the breaking commit (D45987).
Finally address the breakage by making `rm -fr` imply FTS_WHITEOUT
when rm(1) reads directory contents via fts_read(3). While here,
also fix a logic error which produces a spurious 'No error' warning
message on stdout for each deleted whiteout.
Reported by: csjp
Reviewed by: csjp, kib, olce
MFC after: 3 days
Differential Revision: https://reviews.freebsd.org/D53640
---
bin/rm/rm.c | 4 ++--
1 file changed, 2 insertions(+), 2 deletions(-)
diff --git a/bin/rm/rm.c b/bin/rm/rm.c
index 16bbf7403fd4..2c41d7380cea 100644
--- a/bin/rm/rm.c
+++ b/bin/rm/rm.c
@@ -184,7 +184,7 @@ rm_tree(char **argv)
flags = FTS_PHYSICAL;
if (!needstat)
flags |= FTS_NOSTAT;
- if (Wflag)
+ if (Wflag || fflag)
flags |= FTS_WHITEOUT;
if (xflag)
flags |= FTS_XDEV;
@@ -273,7 +273,7 @@ rm_tree(char **argv)
case FTS_W:
rval = undelete(p->fts_accpath);
- if (rval == 0 && (fflag && errno == ENOENT)) {
+ if (rval == 0 || (fflag && errno == ENOENT)) {
if (vflag)
(void)printf("%s\n",
p->fts_path);