From 311c04c0596a61761790b1c0a5fa99ec59796e14 Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001
From: Paul Eggert <eggert@cs.ucla.edu>
Date: Mon, 6 Oct 2025 13:36:40 -0700
Subject: [PATCH] rm: remove redundant mark_ancestor_dirs call

* src/remove.c (rm_fts): Remove unnecessary call.  Since this code
is executed only when not recursive, there are no ancestors to mark.
---
 src/remove.c | 1 -
 1 file changed, 1 deletion(-)

diff --git a/src/remove.c b/src/remove.c
index f50276efd7..86226b1d37 100644
--- a/src/remove.c
+++ b/src/remove.c
@@ -454,7 +454,6 @@ rm_fts (FTS *fts, FTSENT *ent, struct rm_options const *x)
           if (x->remove_empty_directories)
             return RM_OK;
           error (0, EISDIR, _("cannot remove %s"), quoteaf (ent->fts_path));
-          mark_ancestor_dirs (ent);
           ignore_value (fts_read (fts));
           return RM_ERROR;
         }
-- 
2.47.3