From: Jim Meyering <jim@meyering.net>
Date: Mon, 22 Jul 2002 06:59:26 +0000 (+0000)
Subject: rm would prompt for non-dangling symlinks
X-Git-Tag: FILEUTILS-4_1_11~18
X-Git-Url: http://git.ipfire.org/gitweb.cgi?a=commitdiff_plain;h=db6dff2e6ede15f55e329eec6ec091aa1354bc52;p=thirdparty%2Fcoreutils.git

rm would prompt for non-dangling symlinks
(prompt): When not interactive, don't prompt for a symlink.
---

diff --git a/src/remove.c b/src/remove.c
index 8fa482e050..59368ac09a 100644
--- a/src/remove.c
+++ b/src/remove.c
@@ -574,7 +574,11 @@ prompt (char const *filename, struct rm_options const *x,
 
       /* Using permissions doesn't make sense for symlinks.  */
       if (S_ISLNK (sbuf.st_mode))
-	write_protected = 0;
+	{
+	  if ( ! x->interactive)
+	    return RM_OK;
+	  write_protected = 0;
+	}
 
       /* Issue the prompt.  */
       {