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Date:      Sat, 26 Nov 2005 10:49:24 -0500
From:      Bill Vermillion <bv@wjv.com>
To:        user <user@dhp.com>
Cc:        freebsd-fs@freebsd.org
Subject:   Re: remind me ... (file undelete on FreeBSD 5.4)
Message-ID:  <20051126154924.GD66100@wjv.com>
In-Reply-To: <Pine.LNX.4.21.0511261024290.8180-100000@shell.dhp.com>
References:  <20051126091438.4422.qmail@web30303.mail.mud.yahoo.com> <Pine.LNX.4.21.0511261024290.8180-100000@shell.dhp.com>

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On Sat, Nov 26, 2005 at 10:27 , the primordial soup was bombarded
 with cosmic radiation and a new life form of genus user
emerged to test its air breathing capabilities and with great
effort gasped:

> 
> 
> On Sat, 26 Nov 2005, Arne Wörner wrote:
> 
> > Hmm... I think there was such a problem before on a freebsd
> > list...
> > 
> > Did u tell your box to do "rm -rf local" or to do "rm -rf local/"?
> 

> Yes, that is exactly what I did - I autocompleted the symlink and it
> deleted the target and left the symlink intact.  Is this expected, or
> unexpected behavior ?

That is the expected behavior.

Bill
-- 
Bill Vermillion - bv @ wjv . com



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