From owner-freebsd-hackers@FreeBSD.ORG Mon Oct 30 21:17:23 2006 Return-Path: X-Original-To: freebsd-hackers@freebsd.org Delivered-To: freebsd-hackers@freebsd.org Received: from mx1.FreeBSD.org (mx1.freebsd.org [216.136.204.125]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id A146616A4A0 for ; Mon, 30 Oct 2006 21:17:23 +0000 (UTC) (envelope-from mwm-keyword-freebsdhackers2.e313df@mired.org) Received: from mired.org (vpn.mired.org [66.92.153.74]) by mx1.FreeBSD.org (Postfix) with SMTP id 3C8AD43DD6 for ; Mon, 30 Oct 2006 21:16:43 +0000 (GMT) (envelope-from mwm-keyword-freebsdhackers2.e313df@mired.org) Received: (qmail 54276 invoked by uid 1001); 30 Oct 2006 21:17:05 -0000 Received: by bhuda.mired.org (tmda-sendmail, from uid 1001); Mon, 30 Oct 2006 16:17:05 -0500 MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Message-ID: <17734.27601.79021.873705@bhuda.mired.org> Date: Mon, 30 Oct 2006 16:17:05 -0500 To: Doug Barton In-Reply-To: <45466902.5090603@FreeBSD.org> References: <20061029222847.GA68272@marvin.astase.com> <20061030003628.42bc5f8d@loki.starkstrom.lan> <45455f6a.yNcc0kkyEKpoRv3m%perryh@pluto.rain.com> <20061030083849.GB871@turion.vk2pj.dyndns.org> <20061030103151.GD871@turion.vk2pj.dyndns.org> <20061030202030.GB1043@zaphod.nitro.dk> <45466902.5090603@FreeBSD.org> X-Mailer: VM 7.17 under 21.4 (patch 19) "Constant Variable" XEmacs Lucid X-Primary-Address: mwm@mired.org X-face: "5Mnwy%?j>IIV\)A=):rjWL~NB2aH[}Yq8Z=u~vJ`"(,&SiLvbbz2W`; h9L,Yg`+vb1>RG% *h+%X^n0EZd>TM8_IB;a8F?(Fb"lw'IgCoyM.[Lg#r\ X-Delivery-Agent: TMDA/1.1.5 (Fettercairn) From: Mike Meyer Cc: freebsd-hackers@freebsd.org, perryh@pluto.rain.com, "Simon L. Nielsen" Subject: Re: [patch] rm can have undesired side-effects X-BeenThere: freebsd-hackers@freebsd.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.5 Precedence: list List-Id: Technical Discussions relating to FreeBSD List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , X-List-Received-Date: Mon, 30 Oct 2006 21:17:23 -0000 In <45466902.5090603@FreeBSD.org>, Doug Barton typed: > Simon L. Nielsen wrote: > > Personally I think rm should do what you ask it to do - if you ask it > > to overwrite a file which has multiple links, well... though luck. > It's all well and good to say, "tough luck," but I don't think that's > what our users expect. I'm a user. It's what I expect. If I wanted an OS that protected me from myself, I wouldn't be running Unix. Please give me the rope I need to get the job done. If that happens to be enough that I can hang myself, and I sometimes do - well, I got what I asked for. When I want to be coddled, I'll run a different OS. http://www.mired.org/consulting.html Independent Network/Unix/Perforce consultant, email for more information.