[tex-live] updmap and /

Lars Madsen daleif at imf.au.dk
Sun Mar 1 22:19:36 CET 2009


Norbert Preining wrote:
> On So, 01 Mär 2009, Lars Madsen wrote:
>>> And the question is, why rm wants to read the directory.
>> exactly
> 
> It is NOT rm, it is the 
> 	cd /
> that fails ...
> 

no

try

mkdir /tmp/test
cd /
rm -rf /tmp/test

it is only the last one that fails

if / has x rights, the it is legal to cd to it.



> Best wishes
> 
> Norbert
> 
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