From owner-freebsd-stable Mon Apr 30 13: 2:13 2001 Delivered-To: freebsd-stable@freebsd.org Received: from lists.unixathome.org (lists.unixathome.org [210.48.103.158]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 5111E37B422 for ; Mon, 30 Apr 2001 13:02:09 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from dan@langille.org) Received: from localhost (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by lists.unixathome.org (8.11.1/8.11.1) with ESMTP id f3UK22Q55400; Tue, 1 May 2001 08:02:03 +1200 (NZST) (envelope-from dan@langille.org) Date: Tue, 1 May 2001 08:02:02 +1200 (NZST) From: Dan Langille X-Sender: dan@lists.unixathome.org To: Chris Byrnes Cc: stable@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: RE: tail In-Reply-To: Message-ID: MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=US-ASCII Sender: owner-freebsd-stable@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG 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