Date: Mon, 30 Oct 2006 09:20:41 +0000 From: Ceri Davies <ceri@submonkey.net> To: Peter Jeremy <peterjeremy@optushome.com.au> Cc: cvs-src@freebsd.org, src-committers@freebsd.org, Xin LI <delphij@freebsd.org>, cvs-all@freebsd.org Subject: Re: cvs commit: src/bin/rm rm.1 rm.c Message-ID: <20061030092041.GM1690@submonkey.net> In-Reply-To: <20061030090054.GC871@turion.vk2pj.dyndns.org> References: <200610300332.k9U3W9xF099044@repoman.freebsd.org> <20061030090054.GC871@turion.vk2pj.dyndns.org>
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On Mon, Oct 30, 2006 at 08:00:54PM +1100, Peter Jeremy wrote:
> On Mon, 2006-Oct-30 03:32:09 +0000, Xin LI wrote:
> > Be more reasonable when overwrite mode is specified while there
> > is hard links. Overwritting when links > 1 would cause data
> > loss, which is usually undesired.
>
> Another way of looking at it is that not overwriting when links > 1
> means that the data I thought I securely deleted is still present
> somewhere on my computer and I have no easy way to find it.
>
> I believe that this change creates a security hole and should be
> reverted. It the user specified '-P', either the file should be
> over-written or the file should be left untouched (not deleted).
Peter, I fully agree with you. It looks like you are asking for
what's been implemented though; with this change, the file is not
overwritten when multiple links exist.
Ceri
--
That must be wonderful! I don't understand it at all.
-- Moliere
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