Date: Mon, 30 Apr 2001 11:08:25 -0500 (CDT) From: Chris Byrnes <chris@jeah.net> To: Jordan Hubbard <jkh@osd.bsdi.com> Cc: <juha@saarinen.org>, <steveo@eircom.net>, <dan@langille.org>, <stable@FreeBSD.ORG> Subject: RE: tail Message-ID: <Pine.BSF.4.33.0104301107320.10980-100000@awww.jeah.net> In-Reply-To: <20010430001847U.jkh@osd.bsdi.com>
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> It might be, depending on what you were feeding it to. I think the > point people are making is that directory data is, in certain cases, > also potentially useful for something they might conceivably want to > do, and if you yourself don't want to look at it then you shouldn't > ask the system to show it to you. "Doctor, it hurts when I poke > myself in the eye.." :) We have rm -rf to protect us from doing things to directories (IE: rm /poop). We need tail -argument to protect us from doing things to directories. To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-stable" in the body of the message
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