* src/remove.c (nonexistent_file_errno): Also skip EINVAL and
EILSEQ, for at least smbfs rejection of '*' in file names.
* NEWS: Mention the fix.
argument following the one containing the moved sub-tree.
[bug introduced in coreutils-5.1.0]
+ rm -f no longer fails for EINVAL or EILSEQ on file systems that
+ reject file names invalid for that file system.
+
* Noteworthy changes in release 8.9 (2011-01-04) [stable]
exist, but be (in)accessible only via too long a symlink chain.
Likewise for ENAMETOOLONG, since rm -f ./././.../foo may fail
if the "..." part expands to a long enough sequence of "./"s,
- even though ./foo does indeed exist. */
+ even though ./foo does indeed exist.
+
+ Another case to consider is when a particular name is invalid for
+ a given file system. In 2011, smbfs returns EINVAL, but the next
+ revision of POSIX will require EILSEQ for that situation:
+ http://austingroupbugs.net/view.php?id=293
+ */
switch (errnum)
{
+ case EILSEQ:
+ case EINVAL:
case ENOENT:
case ENOTDIR:
return true;