Odd Filesystem Behavior

Kevin L. Kane kevin.kane at gmail.com
Sat Mar 25 08:14:32 PST 2006


oh something else:

prometheus# ls -la
total 3
drwxr-xr-x  3 root  wheel  512 Mar 25 10:37 .
drwxr-xr-x  3 root  wheel  512 Mar 25 10:14 ..
dr-xr-xr-x  2 root  wheel  512 Mar  2 16:03 empty
lrwxr-xr-x  1 root  wheel    6 Mar 25 10:37 symlink -> empty/
prometheus# rm symlink/
rm: symlink/: is a directory
prometheus# rm -rf symlink/
recursively remove symlink/? y
rm: symlink/: Operation not permitted
prometheus# rm symlink
prometheus# ls -la
total 3
drwxr-xr-x  3 root  wheel  512 Mar 25 10:37 .
drwxr-xr-x  3 root  wheel  512 Mar 25 10:14 ..
dr-xr-xr-x  2 root  wheel  512 Mar  2 16:03 empty
prometheus#

I think if i specify the / at the end of symlink it will actually
delete(or try to in this case) all sub folders if it can.  Is that
normal? and if it is, should that be the desired behavior, if its a ln
-s link shouldnt it only delete the link rather than the contents of
what its linking to?

On 3/25/06, Kevin L. Kane <kevin.kane at xxxxxxxxx> wrote:
> I'm running 1.5.2 with all the changes to the FS system(BUF/IO?) stuff.
>
> prometheus# ls -la
> total 3
> drwxr-xr-x  3 root  wheel  512 Mar 25 10:24 .
> drwxr-xr-x  3 root  wheel  512 Mar 25 10:14 ..
> dr-xr-xr-x  2 root  wheel  512 Mar  2 16:03 empty
> prometheus# chmod u+w empty/
> chmod: empty/: Operation not permitted
> prometheus# rm -rf empty/
> recursively remove empty/? y
> rm: empty/: Operation not permitted
> prometheus# rmdir empty/
> rmdir: empty/: Operation not permitted
> prometheus# whoami
> root
>
>
> I was very surprised by my not being able to delete or modify the
> perms on this file.  Also:
>
> prometheus# ls
> empty
> prometheus# ln -s empty/ symlink
> prometheus# ls -la
> total 3
> drwxr-xr-x  3 root  wheel  512 Mar 25 10:32 .
> drwxr-xr-x  3 root  wheel  512 Mar 25 10:14 ..
> dr-xr-xr-x  2 root  wheel  512 Mar  2 16:03 empty
> lrwxr-xr-x  1 root  wheel    6 Mar 25 10:32 symlink -> empty/
> prometheus# rm -rf symlink/
> recursively remove symlink/? y
> rm: symlink/: Operation not permitted
> prometheus# ls -la
> total 3
> drwxr-xr-x  3 root  wheel  512 Mar 25 10:32 .
> drwxr-xr-x  3 root  wheel  512 Mar 25 10:14 ..
> dr-xr-xr-x  2 root  wheel  512 Mar  2 16:03 empty
> lrwxr-xr-x  1 root  wheel    6 Mar 25 10:32 symlink -> empty/
> prometheus# whoami
> root
> prometheus#
>






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