From owner-freebsd-chat Mon Jun 5 15:41:15 2000 Delivered-To: freebsd-chat@freebsd.org Received: from po4.glue.umd.edu (po4.glue.umd.edu [128.8.10.124]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 0982A37B68C for ; Mon, 5 Jun 2000 15:41:10 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from howardjp@glue.umd.edu) Received: from y.glue.umd.edu (root@y.glue.umd.edu [128.8.10.68]) by po4.glue.umd.edu (8.9.3/8.9.3) with ESMTP id SAA06848; Mon, 5 Jun 2000 18:40:53 -0400 (EDT) Received: from y.glue.umd.edu (sendmail@localhost [127.0.0.1]) by y.glue.umd.edu (8.9.3/8.9.3) with SMTP id SAA23427; Mon, 5 Jun 2000 18:40:53 -0400 (EDT) Received: from localhost (howardjp@localhost) by y.glue.umd.edu (8.9.3/8.9.3) with ESMTP id SAA23420; Mon, 5 Jun 2000 18:40:52 -0400 (EDT) X-Authentication-Warning: y.glue.umd.edu: howardjp owned process doing -bs Date: Mon, 5 Jun 2000 18:40:52 -0400 (EDT) From: James Howard To: Brett Glass Cc: Narvi , Giorgos Keramidas , "Thomas M. Sommers" , freebsd-chat@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: Undelete in Unix (Was: Re: Why encourage stupid people to use *BSD) In-Reply-To: <4.3.2.7.2.20000605142053.04aa2ee0@localhost> Message-ID: MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=US-ASCII Sender: owner-freebsd-chat@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.org On Mon, 5 Jun 2000, Brett Glass wrote: > I'd do it with an lkm that hooked syscalls. DOS did deletioning by zeroing the first character of the file name and undeleted it by giving that character a value again. I do not know FFS implements unlink, but how difficult would something on the same level be? Jamie To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-chat" in the body of the message