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From: Wolfgang Helbig <helbig@Informatik.BA-Stuttgart.DE>
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Subject: Re: make world failed
In-Reply-To: <199710110435.OAA10035@godzilla.zeta.org.au> from Bruce Evans at "Oct 11, 97 02:35:31 pm"
To: bde@zeta.org.au (Bruce Evans)
Date: Sat, 11 Oct 1997 11:03:59 +0200 (MET DST)
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>   failure occurs early, for rm -f, because nfs returns ESTALE instead
>   of ENOENT for (necessarily) failing lookups in the removed directory,
>   and rm -f doesn't understand ESTALE.

Should it?

Wolfgang