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Date:      Thu, 25 Apr 2013 22:56:10 -0400
From:      Eitan Adler <lists@eitanadler.com>
To:        Brooks Davis <brooks@freebsd.org>
Cc:        FreeBSD Hackers <freebsd-hackers@freebsd.org>
Subject:   Re: Some improvements to rm(1)
Message-ID:  <CAF6rxgm6J63M7JO4%2BxqwPNu1KwTrmEiOK5YKT5hYXb5yEag0Zg@mail.gmail.com>
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On 25 April 2013 22:50, Brooks Davis <brooks@freebsd.org> wrote:
> On Thu, Apr 25, 2013 at 10:16:32PM -0400, Eitan Adler wrote:
>> Anyone have thoughts on the following?
>>
>> commit 82c78ba923d8ce4a1bfbb309658c49021c8bb384
>> Author: Eitan Adler <lists@eitanadler.com>
>> Date:   Thu Apr 25 22:14:49 2013 -0400
>>
>>     Take some improvements from DragonFlyBSD:
>>       - add const where appropriate
>>       - add static where appropriate
>>       - fix a whitespace issues
>
> The no-op changes look more correct to me.
>
> I think the -x option seems a bit odd.  What is the use case?  At a
> first thought, it seems to raise more questions than it resolves.

It goes along with cp -x, find -x, and others.

Quick example #1: You have /usr/ports /usr/ports/distfiles as
different mount points it lets you wipe /usr/ports without wiping your
distfile cache.

Quick example #2: You have /usr/src/ null mounted in every user's
/home/ and you want to wipe one home directory.



-- 
Eitan Adler



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