Re: Deleting concatenation directories

[larsi@ifi.uio.no (Lars Magne Ingebrigtsen)]

Stainless Steel Rat <ratinox@ccs.neu.edu> writes:

> I have found two cases where the directory and possibly its contents are
> not deleted.  First, the rare case when an NFS link file is extant
> within the directory the rmdir fails.  Second, when you 'X u' on a
> recursive zipfile subdirectories are created within the catenation
> directory and these are not deleted by the 'rm *' command.

I guess I could just have gnus-uu recurse down the /tmp/gnus*
directory and delete everything in sight.  I didn't like to do that
sort of thing -- just one slight mistake (as, for instance, recursing
up ".." directories), and, well, Major Catastrophy, General Breakdown
and Private Tragedy.  And the rest of that army.

However, this is exactly what I do when unsharing.  So I guess I could
do the same when uudecoding.

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