From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Path: news.gmane.org!not-for-mail From: Michael Albinus Newsgroups: gmane.emacs.bugs Subject: bug#11194: 24.0.95; sudo rm doesn't work with absolute directory paths on the file system Date: Sun, 22 Apr 2012 19:47:47 +0200 Message-ID: <87k417sloc.fsf@gmx.de> References: <877gxrbz1p.fsf@rbdash.i-did-not-set--mail-host-address--so-tickle-me> <87obr2cwtu.fsf@gmx.de> <87ehrwdbhs.fsf@gmx.de> <87r4vwqd3q.fsf@gmx.de> <87zkajsn4e.fsf@gmx.de> <87r4vvsjor.fsf@gmx.de> <87ehriseyx.fsf@gmx.de> NNTP-Posting-Host: plane.gmane.org Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain X-Trace: dough.gmane.org 1335116914 11322 80.91.229.3 (22 Apr 2012 17:48:34 GMT) X-Complaints-To: usenet@dough.gmane.org NNTP-Posting-Date: Sun, 22 Apr 2012 17:48:34 +0000 (UTC) Cc: Cray Elliott , 11194@debbugs.gnu.org To: Stefan Monnier Original-X-From: bug-gnu-emacs-bounces+geb-bug-gnu-emacs=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Sun Apr 22 19:48:32 2012 Return-path: Envelope-to: geb-bug-gnu-emacs@m.gmane.org Original-Received: from lists.gnu.org ([208.118.235.17]) by plane.gmane.org with esmtp (Exim 4.69) (envelope-from ) id 1SM0ti-0005f2-MN for geb-bug-gnu-emacs@m.gmane.org; Sun, 22 Apr 2012 19:48:30 +0200 Original-Received: from localhost ([::1]:50600 helo=lists.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1SM0ti-0005Au-5G for geb-bug-gnu-emacs@m.gmane.org; Sun, 22 Apr 2012 13:48:30 -0400 Original-Received: from eggs.gnu.org ([208.118.235.92]:44301) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1SM0tf-0005Ak-21 for bug-gnu-emacs@gnu.org; Sun, 22 Apr 2012 13:48:28 -0400 Original-Received: from Debian-exim by eggs.gnu.org with spam-scanned (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1SM0td-0008Or-8W for bug-gnu-emacs@gnu.org; Sun, 22 Apr 2012 13:48:26 -0400 Original-Received: from debbugs.gnu.org ([140.186.70.43]:46085) by eggs.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1SM0td-0008Om-5C for bug-gnu-emacs@gnu.org; Sun, 22 Apr 2012 13:48:25 -0400 Original-Received: from Debian-debbugs by debbugs.gnu.org with local (Exim 4.72) (envelope-from ) id 1SM0uD-0006Vb-N3 for bug-gnu-emacs@gnu.org; Sun, 22 Apr 2012 13:49:01 -0400 X-Loop: help-debbugs@gnu.org Resent-From: Michael Albinus Original-Sender: debbugs-submit-bounces@debbugs.gnu.org Resent-CC: bug-gnu-emacs@gnu.org Resent-Date: Sun, 22 Apr 2012 17:49:01 +0000 Resent-Message-ID: Resent-Sender: help-debbugs@gnu.org X-GNU-PR-Message: followup 11194 X-GNU-PR-Package: emacs X-GNU-PR-Keywords: Original-Received: via spool by 11194-submit@debbugs.gnu.org id=B11194.133511691924986 (code B ref 11194); Sun, 22 Apr 2012 17:49:01 +0000 Original-Received: (at 11194) by debbugs.gnu.org; 22 Apr 2012 17:48:39 +0000 Original-Received: from localhost ([127.0.0.1]:47119 helo=debbugs.gnu.org) by debbugs.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.72) (envelope-from ) id 1SM0tq-0006Ux-Nd for submit@debbugs.gnu.org; Sun, 22 Apr 2012 13:48:38 -0400 Original-Received: from mailout-de.gmx.net ([213.165.64.22]:43178) by debbugs.gnu.org with smtp (Exim 4.72) (envelope-from ) id 1SM0tn-0006Uh-58 for 11194@debbugs.gnu.org; Sun, 22 Apr 2012 13:48:36 -0400 Original-Received: (qmail invoked by alias); 22 Apr 2012 17:47:51 -0000 Original-Received: from p57BB8E7C.dip0.t-ipconnect.de (EHLO detlef.gmx.de) [87.187.142.124] by mail.gmx.net (mp004) with SMTP; 22 Apr 2012 19:47:51 +0200 X-Authenticated: #3708877 X-Provags-ID: V01U2FsdGVkX1+ns45NEpKnoyO740AaaaPZdzIuvnomOKlz3Fceo3 xwdozDM/5bjpLr In-Reply-To: (Stefan Monnier's message of "Fri, 20 Apr 2012 22:03:03 -0400") User-Agent: Gnus/5.13 (Gnus v5.13) Emacs/24.1.50 (gnu/linux) X-Y-GMX-Trusted: 0 X-BeenThere: debbugs-submit@debbugs.gnu.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.13 Precedence: list X-detected-operating-system: by eggs.gnu.org: GNU/Linux 2.6 (newer, 2) X-Received-From: 140.186.70.43 X-BeenThere: bug-gnu-emacs@gnu.org List-Id: "Bug reports for GNU Emacs, the Swiss army knife of text editors" List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , Errors-To: bug-gnu-emacs-bounces+geb-bug-gnu-emacs=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Original-Sender: bug-gnu-emacs-bounces+geb-bug-gnu-emacs=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Xref: news.gmane.org gmane.emacs.bugs:59388 Archived-At: Stefan Monnier writes: >>> I'd be happy to hear of arguments in favor of the current behavior of >>> eshell/sudo w.r.t builtins. >> I've checked the implementation of eshell/sudo: It simply let-binds >> default-directory to "/sudo:user@host:dir", and let the command like rm >> run. That's why the built-in version of rm is in place. >> Another implementation of sudo would not be in the spirit of eshell, I >> think. > > Spirit or not, the resulting behavior for `sudo' makes no sense and > should be fixed, Last attempt to convince you: The eshell manual gives as example ~ $ cd /ssh:otherhost:/etc /ssh:user@otherhost:/etc $ sudo find-file shadow If you disable built-in commands inside sudo, you would disable all other Lisp functions as well. Do we want this? > Stefan Best regards, Michael.