bin/48271: bug with find's -delete option

Friedemann Becker Friedemann.Becker at web.de
Wed Jan 14 09:50:31 PST 2004


The following reply was made to PR bin/48271; it has been noted by GNATS.

From: Friedemann Becker <Friedemann.Becker at web.de>
To: freebsd-gnats-submit at FreeBSD.org, arlankfo at 141.com
Cc:  
Subject: Re: bin/48271: bug with find's -delete option
Date: Wed, 14 Jan 2004 18:53:13 +0100

 Find in fact is working as documented. The manpage says "[...] will not 
 attempt to delete a filename with a ``/'' character in its pathname 
 relative to ``.'' for security reasons."
 Maybe one could document what those security reasons are, but the code 
 is correct.
 
 pr should be set to 'closed' or 'feedback'
 
 


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