From owner-freebsd-chat Tue Jul 18 18: 0:53 2000 Delivered-To: freebsd-chat@freebsd.org Received: from wantadilla.lemis.com (wantadilla.lemis.com [192.109.197.80]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 67E5737B5A8 for ; Tue, 18 Jul 2000 18:00:47 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from grog@wantadilla.lemis.com) Received: (from grog@localhost) by wantadilla.lemis.com (8.9.3/8.9.3) id KAA42159; Wed, 19 Jul 2000 10:30:40 +0930 (CST) (envelope-from grog) Date: Wed, 19 Jul 2000 10:30:40 +0930 From: Greg Lehey To: Jason Cc: FreeBSD Chat Subject: Re: The joys of Windows Message-ID: <20000719103040.D12072@wantadilla.lemis.com> References: <20000718165600.13757.qmail@web1304.mail.yahoo.com> <20000718224821.F19428@physics.iisc.ernet.in> <002301bff0df$8be558e0$9ccf1f40@pdq.net> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii X-Mailer: Mutt 1.0pre2i In-Reply-To: <002301bff0df$8be558e0$9ccf1f40@pdq.net> Organization: LEMIS, PO Box 460, Echunga SA 5153, Australia Phone: +61-8-8388-8286 Fax: +61-8-8388-8725 Mobile: +61-418-838-708 WWW-Home-Page: http://www.lemis.com/~grog X-PGP-Fingerprint: 6B 7B C3 8C 61 CD 54 AF 13 24 52 F8 6D A4 95 EF Sender: owner-freebsd-chat@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.org On Tuesday, 18 July 2000 at 12:42:29 -0500, Jason wrote: >> Tim Ryder said on Jul 18, 2000 at 09:56:00: >> Another thing: I think you missed the point of the original mail, >> which wasn't a general crib mail, but documented a specific deficiency >> in windows: namely, it sometimes automatically deletes files in the >> home area on logout if the "roaming profile directory" (whatever that >> is) is set to the home directory (though apparently you can safely set >> it to a subdirectory of the home directory). I think further comment >> is unnecessary. I challenge you to find anything comparable in the >> history of unix. > > There was a bug in /usr/sbin/pkg_add where while installing a ports package > that it received a ^c it would rm -rf the current users home directory. This > feature worked for some time on both FreeBSD and NetBSD. > > Satisfied? Not really. I don't recall this bug. When was it? How long was it there? Did people try to sell a "well don't do that then" as a solution? Greg -- Finger grog@lemis.com for PGP public key See complete headers for address and phone numbers To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-chat" in the body of the message