[Bug 1073850] Re: rmdir --ignore-fail-on-non-empty does not work

[Tamas Papp]

Indeed, there are systems, where I cannot reproduce.
All the systems are Precise and Quantal.

I'm trying to debug it more deeply.

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Title:
  rmdir --ignore-fail-on-non-empty does not work

Status in “coreutils” package in Ubuntu:
  New

Bug description:
  $ sudo rmdir --ignore-fail-on-non-empty /tmp
  rmdir: failed to remove `/tmp'

  $ echo $?
  1

  
  On Lucid there is no error message and the exit code is 0.

  ProblemType: Bug
  DistroRelease: Ubuntu 12.10
  Package: coreutils 8.13-3.2ubuntu2
  ProcVersionSignature: Ubuntu 3.5.0-17.28-generic 3.5.5
  Uname: Linux 3.5.0-17-generic x86_64
  ApportVersion: 2.6.1-0ubuntu6
  Architecture: amd64
  Date: Thu Nov  1 10:22:11 2012
  InstallationDate: Installed on 2011-06-26 (493 days ago)
  InstallationMedia: Ubuntu 11.04 "Natty Narwhal" - Release amd64 (20110426)
  MarkForUpload: True
  ProcEnviron:
   LANGUAGE=en_US:en
   TERM=xterm
   PATH=(custom, no user)
   LANG=en_US.UTF-8
   SHELL=/bin/zsh
  SourcePackage: coreutils
  UpgradeStatus: Upgraded to quantal on 2011-08-27 (431 days ago)

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