On Sat, May 14, 2011 at 3:51 PM, Christopher Howard <
christopher.howard@frigidcode.com> wrote:
>
> This was kind of problematic for me the other day because I had a script
> that was supposed to "rm -rf" a certain backup directory, but it
> actually wasn't doing it completely because there were some
> subdirectories that didn't have their write permission bits set.
Maybe this is exactly the reason.
If I am the owner of a directory, and you the owner of a subdirectory, you
might be quite put out if I deleted your files by deleting the parent
directory.
jermudgeon
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