[U-Boot-Users] Delete all env vars except read onlys
Wolfgang Denk
wd at denx.de
Thu Feb 14 00:11:43 CET 2008
In message <47B37791.3010109 at freescale.com> you wrote:
>
> > Oops??? "rm" never asks unless you ask it to ask.
>
> Not true. It will ask if you don't have write permission to the file,
> even if you are able to delete because you have write permission to the
> directory.
Does it? Indeed. Must be a GNUism. I bet this was't there in Unix v6
when I learned it ;-)
You are right, but this is still a special case where another,
explicit protection is being overwritten.
Best regards,
Wolfgang Denk
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