From owner-freebsd-questions Thu Nov 18 8:55: 9 1999 Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from serenity.mcc.ac.uk (serenity.mcc.ac.uk [130.88.200.93]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id AD0DB15167 for ; Thu, 18 Nov 1999 08:55:04 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from jcm@dogma.freebsd-uk.eu.org) Received: from dogma.freebsd-uk.eu.org ([130.88.200.97]) by serenity.mcc.ac.uk with esmtp (Exim 1.92 #3) id 11oUpr-000Bd9-00; Thu, 18 Nov 1999 16:55:03 +0000 Received: from localhost (jcm@localhost) by dogma.freebsd-uk.eu.org (8.9.3/8.9.3) with SMTP id QAA02853; Thu, 18 Nov 1999 16:55:02 GMT (envelope-from jcm@dogma.freebsd-uk.eu.org) Date: Thu, 18 Nov 1999 16:55:02 +0000 (GMT) From: Jonathon McKitrick To: Dann Lunsford Cc: questions@freebsd.org Subject: Re: "whiteouts" in rm manpage In-Reply-To: <19991118062046.A9496@greycat.com> Message-ID: MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=US-ASCII Sender: owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG I read the man page on ep, and i saw the remark on the pencil mark. Is that for real? Or *is* it a joke? On Thu, 18 Nov 1999, Dann Lunsford wrote: >Was looking at the "rm" manpage, noticed something that had escaped >my attention: the -W option. > > -W Attempt to undelete the named files. Currently, this option > can only be used to recover files covered by whiteouts. > >WHITEOUTS??? What is this? Never heard of it before and can't >find any other refs (doesn't mean there aren't any, of course). >After the "pencil mark on the card to enable something" in the >ep(4) page, I'm a little, umm, *reluctant* to dismiss this as >a joke :-). 3.3-STABLE, last built about a week ago. > >Thanks! > >-- >Dann Lunsford The only thing necessary for the triumph of evil >dann@greycat.com is that men of good will do nothing. -- Cicero > > >To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org >with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message > Good day, eh? -jm To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message