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: Tue, 10 Apr 2012 17:14:28 +0200 Message-ID: <87r4vvsjor.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> NNTP-Posting-Host: plane.gmane.org Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain X-Trace: dough.gmane.org 1334070922 31305 80.91.229.3 (10 Apr 2012 15:15:22 GMT) X-Complaints-To: usenet@dough.gmane.org NNTP-Posting-Date: Tue, 10 Apr 2012 15:15:22 +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 Tue Apr 10 17:15:20 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 1SHcmo-0000qW-3d for geb-bug-gnu-emacs@m.gmane.org; Tue, 10 Apr 2012 17:15:14 +0200 Original-Received: from localhost ([::1]:48936 helo=lists.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1SHcmn-0002Rz-Ds for geb-bug-gnu-emacs@m.gmane.org; Tue, 10 Apr 2012 11:15:13 -0400 Original-Received: from eggs.gnu.org ([208.118.235.92]:33337) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1SHcmf-0002Ou-Tq for bug-gnu-emacs@gnu.org; Tue, 10 Apr 2012 11:15:11 -0400 Original-Received: from Debian-exim by eggs.gnu.org with spam-scanned (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1SHcmb-0000Dl-5B for bug-gnu-emacs@gnu.org; Tue, 10 Apr 2012 11:15:05 -0400 Original-Received: from debbugs.gnu.org ([140.186.70.43]:52462) by eggs.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1SHcmb-0000Dc-2C for bug-gnu-emacs@gnu.org; Tue, 10 Apr 2012 11:15:01 -0400 Original-Received: from Debian-debbugs by debbugs.gnu.org with local (Exim 4.72) (envelope-from ) id 1SHcnZ-0002rG-S4 for bug-gnu-emacs@gnu.org; Tue, 10 Apr 2012 11:16:02 -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: Tue, 10 Apr 2012 15:16:01 +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=B11194.133407093710948 (code B ref 11194); Tue, 10 Apr 2012 15:16:01 +0000 Original-Received: (at 11194) by debbugs.gnu.org; 10 Apr 2012 15:15:37 +0000 Original-Received: from localhost ([127.0.0.1]:49000 helo=debbugs.gnu.org) by debbugs.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.72) (envelope-from ) id 1SHcn9-0002qV-Ej for submit@debbugs.gnu.org; Tue, 10 Apr 2012 11:15:37 -0400 Original-Received: from mailout-de.gmx.net ([213.165.64.23]:59654) by debbugs.gnu.org with smtp (Exim 4.72) (envelope-from ) id 1SHcn7-0002qN-79 for 11194@debbugs.gnu.org; Tue, 10 Apr 2012 11:15:34 -0400 Original-Received: (qmail invoked by alias); 10 Apr 2012 15:14:30 -0000 Original-Received: from p57BB97DD.dip0.t-ipconnect.de (EHLO detlef.gmx.de) [87.187.151.221] by mail.gmx.net (mp071) with SMTP; 10 Apr 2012 17:14:30 +0200 X-Authenticated: #3708877 X-Provags-ID: V01U2FsdGVkX18UrXp7rbIUSYwMuk+665J5oTKulRtp0owz1Xemk/ N9zea755Y0XOry In-Reply-To: (Stefan Monnier's message of "Tue, 10 Apr 2012 10:55:44 -0400") User-Agent: Gnus/5.13 (Gnus v5.13) Emacs/24.0.94 (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:58696 Archived-At: Stefan Monnier writes: > "sudo . .eshell/history" means "execute the commands in .eshell/history > as user `root'". I.e. it's very different from > ". /sudo::.eshell/history" which runs those command as the current user. I haven't said there's only one way to do it :-) I mean we should think about, before we disable builtins in sudo. I'm still not convinced it is a bug. In eshell, one must understand how file names are handled. And, btw, people who don't like the current behaviour are free to add alias sudo *sudo $* to ~/.eshell/alias. > Stefan Best regards, Michael.