From owner-freebsd-hackers Fri Apr 16 13:56:52 1999 Delivered-To: freebsd-hackers@freebsd.org Received: from london.physics.purdue.edu (london.physics.purdue.edu [128.210.67.35]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 3D0C5159C4 for ; Fri, 16 Apr 1999 13:56:49 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from csg@physics.purdue.edu) Received: from ohm.physics.purdue.edu (ohm.physics.purdue.edu [128.210.146.32]) by london.physics.purdue.edu (8.8.8/8.8.8) with ESMTP id PAA24509; Fri, 16 Apr 1999 15:54:22 -0500 (EST) Received: (from csg@localhost) by ohm.physics.purdue.edu (8.9.2/8.9.2) id PAA01307; Fri, 16 Apr 1999 15:54:07 -0500 (EST) (envelope-from csg@physics.purdue.edu) Date: Fri, 16 Apr 1999 15:54:07 -0500 From: "C. Stephen Gunn" To: The Classiest Man Alive Cc: freebsd-hackers@freebsd.org Subject: Re: Entombing for FreeBSD Message-ID: <19990416155407.A1158@ohm.physics.purdue.edu> References: <199904161955.MAA59781@apollo.backplane.com> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii X-Mailer: Mutt 0.95i In-Reply-To: ; from The Classiest Man Alive on Fri, Apr 16, 1999 at 04:26:18PM -0400 Sender: owner-freebsd-hackers@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG On Fri, Apr 16, 1999 at 04:26:18PM -0400, The Classiest Man Alive wrote: > For that matter, does it offer anything that a set of intelligent > scripts/wrappers for common destructive commands wouldn't give you? Well. It's in libc, so it works for all binaries that are dynamically linked against libc. We had someone around here debate its advantages to an alias for rm that moves files into /tmp. Ugh! From AJK's website: http://www.physics.purdue.edu/~ajk/projects.html > ... we replace the C library wrappers for the system calls open(), > rename(), truncate(), and unlink() (and creat() on systems that > have it) with versions that archive the file in a repository before > doing the bona fide syscall. - Steve -- C. Stephen Gunn, Computer Systems Engineer Physics Computer Network, Purdue University To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-hackers" in the body of the message