From owner-freebsd-security Mon Aug 30 12:15: 2 1999 Delivered-To: freebsd-security@freebsd.org Received: from rover.village.org (rover.village.org [204.144.255.49]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 6DC43157CF for ; Mon, 30 Aug 1999 12:14:59 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from imp@harmony.village.org) Received: from harmony.village.org (harmony.village.org [10.0.0.6]) by rover.village.org (8.9.3/8.9.3) with ESMTP id NAA03980; Mon, 30 Aug 1999 13:14:58 -0600 (MDT) (envelope-from imp@harmony.village.org) Received: from harmony.village.org (localhost.village.org [127.0.0.1]) by harmony.village.org (8.9.3/8.8.3) with ESMTP id NAA05430; Mon, 30 Aug 1999 13:14:21 -0600 (MDT) Message-Id: <199908301914.NAA05430@harmony.village.org> To: "Rodney W. Grimes" Subject: Re: Not sure if you got it... Cc: bde@zeta.org.au (Bruce Evans), dynamo@ime.net, security@FreeBSD.ORG In-reply-to: Your message of "Mon, 30 Aug 1999 12:09:38 PDT." <199908301909.MAA66317@gndrsh.dnsmgr.net> References: <199908301909.MAA66317@gndrsh.dnsmgr.net> Date: Mon, 30 Aug 1999 13:14:21 -0600 From: Warner Losh Sender: owner-freebsd-security@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.org In message <199908301909.MAA66317@gndrsh.dnsmgr.net> "Rodney W. Grimes" writes: : It still goes aginst my ingrained Unix ideal that says each command : should do one thing and one thing only, but do it really well. If you : need to do 2 things you should glue 2 commands togeather. Have we all : fallen off the rocker and forgotten this is one of the design concepts : behind unix, and one of the things that has made it such a powerful : operating system that has withstood the test of time over and over? rm -f integrates rm and chmod. -f is defined to be "force removal of file" which should imply removing user flags, but doing so would be present certain difficulties.. Warner To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-security" in the body of the message