busybox: rm -f should NOT work on directories

[David Douthitt]

Package: busybox
Version: 0.47pre
Severity: normal

rm -f <dir> works under busybox, but does not under GNU fileutils rm. 
Instead, rm -f <dir> should report:

rm: /tmp/foo: is a directory

Following is some output....

Under LRP 2.9.7 (modified), with busybox 0.47pre installed:

# busybox
BusyBox v0.47pre (2000.07.21-04:02+0000) multi-call binary -- GPL2

Usage: busybox [function] [arguments]...
   or: [function] [arguments]...

        BusyBox is a multi-call binary that combines many common Unix
        utilities into a single executable.  Most people will create a
        link to busybox for each function they wish to use, and 
BusyBox
        will act like whatever it was invoked as.

Currently defined functions:
        busybox, cat, chgrp, chmod, chown, clear, cp, cut, date, dd, 
df,
        dmesg, du, dutmp, false, fdflush, find, gunzip, gzip, kill, 
killall,
        ln, loadkmap, ls, makedevs, mkdir, mknod, nc, more, mount, mv,
        printf, pwd, renice, rm, rmdir, sleep, sync, swapon, swapoff,
        tar, telnet, tee, touch, true, umount, update, zcat

# uname -a
Linux lrpsys.nope 2.2.16 #1 Sun Jul 16 18:29:35 EDT 2000 i386 unknown
# mkdir /tmp/foo
# rm -f /tmp/foo
# ls /tmp/foo
/tmp/foo: No such file or directory
#

Under Red Hat 6.2:

# rpm -qf $(which rm)
fileutils-4.0-21
# uname -a
Linux mysys.nope 2.2.16-3 #1 Mon Jun 19 18:49:25 EDT 2000 i586 unknown
# mkdir /tmp/foo
# rm -f /tmp/foo
rm: /tmp/foo: is a directory
# ls -ld /tmp/foo
drwxr-xr-x    2 root     root         4096 Sep 20 12:12 /tmp/foo
#

-- 
David Douthitt
UNIX Systems Administrator
HP-UX, Linux, Unixware
ddouthitt at mennonite.minister.net

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