Date: Tue, 1 May 2001 08:02:02 +1200 (NZST) From: Dan Langille <dan@langille.org> To: Chris Byrnes <chris@jeah.net> Cc: stable@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: RE: tail Message-ID: <Pine.BSF.4.21.0105010800310.55348-100000@lists.unixathome.org> In-Reply-To: <Pine.BSF.4.33.0104301107320.10980-100000@awww.jeah.net>
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On Mon, 30 Apr 2001, Chris Byrnes wrote: > > 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). This avoids catastraphic file removals. > We need tail -argument to protect us from doing things to directories. This avoids nothing. To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-stable" in the body of the message
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