Date: Mon, 30 Oct 2006 10:37:11 +0100 From: Joerg Pernfuss <elessar@bsdforen.de> To: cvs-src@freebsd.org Cc: Xin LI <delphij@freebsd.org>, Peter Jeremy <peterjeremy@optushome.com.au>, Ceri Davies <ceri@submonkey.net>, src-committers@freebsd.org, cvs-all@freebsd.org Subject: Re: cvs commit: src/bin/rm rm.1 rm.c Message-ID: <20061030103711.15d49e0b@loki.starkstrom.lan> In-Reply-To: <20061030092041.GM1690@submonkey.net> References: <200610300332.k9U3W9xF099044@repoman.freebsd.org> <20061030090054.GC871@turion.vk2pj.dyndns.org> <20061030092041.GM1690@submonkey.net>
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--Sig_eTZuSaW2r25lI=QEIGTvvjR Content-Type: text/plain; charset=US-ASCII Content-Transfer-Encoding: quoted-printable On Mon, 30 Oct 2006 09:20:41 +0000 Ceri Davies <ceri@submonkey.net> wrote: > On Mon, Oct 30, 2006 at 08:00:54PM +1100, Peter Jeremy wrote: > > On Mon, 2006-Oct-30 03:32:09 +0000, Xin LI wrote: > > > Be more reasonable when overwrite mode is specified while there > > > is hard links. Overwritting when links > 1 would cause data > > > loss, which is usually undesired. > >=20 > > Another way of looking at it is that not overwriting when links > 1 > > means that the data I thought I securely deleted is still present > > somewhere on my computer and I have no easy way to find it. find /mountpoint -type f -inum <inode_number> > > I believe that this change creates a security hole and should be > > reverted. It the user specified '-P', either the file should be > > over-written or the file should be left untouched (not deleted). >=20 > Peter, I fully agree with you. It looks like you are asking for > what's been implemented though; with this change, the file is not > overwritten when multiple links exist. But I too agree that this maybe should be backed out until it is further discussed. I wasn't aware of the capabilities of our ln(1) when I suggested the patch. Joerg --=20 | /"\ ASCII ribbon | GnuPG Key ID | e86d b753 3deb e749 6c3a | | \ / campaign against | 0xbbcaad24 | 5706 1f7d 6cfd bbca ad24 | | X HTML in email | .the next sentence is true. | | / \ and news | .the previous sentence was a lie. | --Sig_eTZuSaW2r25lI=QEIGTvvjR Content-Type: application/pgp-signature; name=signature.asc Content-Disposition: attachment; filename=signature.asc -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- Version: GnuPG v1.4.2.2 (FreeBSD) iD8DBQFFRcfHH31s/bvKrSQRAhNZAJ4oQIGK06U3YtYDZXGHNftvjYGjigCfbifn 7w0PxHLUStWwq4AVF/Pg0Lk= =ddeF -----END PGP SIGNATURE----- --Sig_eTZuSaW2r25lI=QEIGTvvjR--
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