Date: Mon, 15 May 1995 09:38:13 +1000 From: Simon Burge <simonb@melb.cpr.itg.telecom.com.au> To: netbsd-bugs@NetBSD.ORG, freebsd-hackers@FreeBSD.org Subject: Re: kern/1043: unlink(2) should not let superuser remove directories Message-ID: <199505142338.JAA29642@huon.melb.cpr.itg.telecom.com.au> In-Reply-To: Ted Lemon <mellon@vix.com> "Re: kern/1043: unlink(2) should not let superuser remove directories" (May 14, 4:18pm)
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On May 14, 4:18pm, Ted Lemon wrote: > Unfortunately, fsdb is virtually impossible to use because its > interface is essentially adb-like, and all the commands are > single-character and non-mnemonic. If it were something one used > every day, that would be okay, but it's more like once every two years > for me, so I always have to track down a man page, which can be hard > when my root partition is hosed. > > If you're going to write an fsdb replacement, I think it would be a > win to put in a more gdb- or even dbx-like interface. It might be > worth looking at the man page for advice on what features to put in, > but that'd be about it, IMHO. Way back when, when I was playing with Minix on the PC532, there was a neat little program with a curses-type interface that let you look at files by inode or name, and decoded super-block structures and the like. Buggered if I can remember it's name, but it was useful under Minix more than once... > _MelloN_ Simon.
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