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From: Terry Lambert <terry@lambert.org>
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Subject: Re: kernel versions and config's rm -rf
To: wollman@lcs.mit.edu (Garrett A. Wollman)
Date: Tue, 26 Sep 1995 17:37:40 -0700 (MST)
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> > So why does the 'config' process delete the directory?
> 
> It doesn't on my machines...  I believe that it is fundamentally
> broken to have config(8) even capable of blowing a directory away like
> that.  Unfortunately, I have consistently lost that argument.

Well, I agree with you.

Which I guess is a guarantee that everyone will polarize in the opposite
direction.  8-).


					Terry Lambert
					terry@lambert.org
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