From: Michael Albinus <michael.albinus@gmx.de>
To: Stefan Monnier <monnier@iro.umontreal.ca>
Cc: Cray Elliott <mp2e@archlinux.us>, 11194@debbugs.gnu.org
Subject: bug#11194: 24.0.95; sudo rm doesn't work with absolute directory paths on the file system
Date: Tue, 10 Apr 2012 09:07:21 +0200 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <87r4vwqd3q.fsf@gmx.de> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <jwv4nssic1f.fsf-monnier+emacs@gnu.org> (Stefan Monnier's message of "Mon, 09 Apr 2012 21:58:05 -0400")
Stefan Monnier <monnier@iro.umontreal.ca> writes:
>>> While using Tramp might make sense, I think that "sudo rm -rf /foo/bar"
>>> is a perfectly valid command and wonder why it wouldn't work correctly.
>> In eshell, `sudo' is an built-in for `eshell/sudo':
>
> That does not in itself explain why it doesn't do the right thing: the
> intention seems fairly clear.
Sure.
The problem is `rm', which is another built-in. Built-ins are not aware
of being called in a `su(do)?' context.
Sounds like a new feature in eshell. Do we want it? Do we know, that
there are no unwanted side effects, if (local) "/foo/bar" is handled as
(remote) "/su(do)?::/foo/bar" for *all* built-ins, when being called
from `eshell/su(do)?'?
> Stefan
Best regards, Michael.
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2012-04-10 7:07 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 23+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2012-04-07 10:45 bug#11194: 24.0.95; sudo rm doesn't work with absolute directory paths on the file system Cray Elliott
2012-04-08 11:00 ` Michael Albinus
2012-04-09 2:20 ` Stefan Monnier
2012-04-09 18:08 ` Michael Albinus
2012-04-10 1:58 ` Stefan Monnier
2012-04-10 7:07 ` Michael Albinus [this message]
2012-04-10 13:01 ` Stefan Monnier
2012-04-10 14:00 ` Michael Albinus
2012-04-10 14:55 ` Stefan Monnier
2012-04-10 15:14 ` Michael Albinus
2012-04-10 16:23 ` Stefan Monnier
2012-04-10 16:41 ` Thierry Volpiatto
2012-04-10 17:07 ` Thierry Volpiatto
2012-04-10 18:00 ` Stefan Monnier
2012-04-20 13:35 ` Michael Albinus
2012-04-21 2:03 ` Stefan Monnier
2012-04-22 17:47 ` Michael Albinus
2012-04-24 1:52 ` Stefan Monnier
2012-04-25 9:32 ` Michael Albinus
2012-04-10 16:35 ` Thierry Volpiatto
2012-04-10 16:57 ` Thierry Volpiatto
2012-04-20 13:38 ` Michael Albinus
2012-04-20 20:58 ` Thierry Volpiatto
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