From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 X-Msuck: nntp://news.gmane.io/gmane.emacs.gnus.general/5306 Path: main.gmane.org!not-for-mail From: larsi@ifi.uio.no (Lars Magne Ingebrigtsen) Newsgroups: gmane.emacs.gnus.general Subject: Re: Deleting concatenation directories Date: 26 Feb 1996 13:49:31 +0100 Organization: Dept. of Informatics, University of Oslo, Norway Sender: larsi@ifi.uio.no Message-ID: References: <199602230817.AA24187@fiicmal02.tu-graz.ac.at> NNTP-Posting-Host: coloc-standby.netfonds.no X-Trace: main.gmane.org 1035145929 32431 80.91.224.250 (20 Oct 2002 20:32:09 GMT) X-Complaints-To: usenet@main.gmane.org NNTP-Posting-Date: Sun, 20 Oct 2002 20:32:09 +0000 (UTC) Return-Path: ding-request@ifi.uio.no Original-Received: from ifi.uio.no (ifi.uio.no [129.240.64.2]) by deanna.miranova.com (8.7.3/8.6.9) with SMTP id FAA00912 for ; Mon, 26 Feb 1996 05:44:29 -0800 Original-Received: from eistla.ifi.uio.no (4867@eistla.ifi.uio.no [129.240.94.29]) by ifi.uio.no with ESMTP (8.6.11/ifi2.4) id for ; Mon, 26 Feb 1996 13:49:32 +0100 Original-Received: (from larsi@localhost) by eistla.ifi.uio.no ; Mon, 26 Feb 1996 13:49:32 +0100 Original-To: ding@ifi.uio.no In-Reply-To: Stainless Steel Rat's message of 24 Feb 1996 08:33:05 -0500 Original-Lines: 20 Xref: main.gmane.org gmane.emacs.gnus.general:5306 X-Report-Spam: http://spam.gmane.org/gmane.emacs.gnus.general:5306 Stainless Steel Rat 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. -- "Yes. The journey through the human heart would have to wait until some other time."