Re: Version 2.1.70 ms-dos fs strange.

Richard B. Johnson (root@chaos.analogic.com)
Sun, 4 Jan 1998 20:27:22 -0500 (EST)


The original design was good. One could use Unix tools on a DOS
file system.... like

# rm -f *.bak

No error was returned even though ths shell passed "*.bak" on (because
it could not find anything by globbing).

When '-f' is used with `rm` it expects to get ENOENT and is silent.

Cheers,
Dick Johnson
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