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Aucbvax.4491 fa.unix-wizards utzoo!decvax!ucbvax!unix-wizards Fri Oct 16 00:51:26 1981 More on safer rm >From decvax!ittvax!swatt@Berkeley Thu Oct 15 21:59:48 1981

The USENET traffic on this subject has quieted down so I hesitate to start it up again... All the stuff in the past sort of got me thinking about a good solution to the problem and I came up with the following. It has the advantage of not changing the way existing programs APPEAR to work (i.e. no "Do you really want to remove this file?"). It has the disadvantage of considerable extra overhead (quite a lot of which could be eliminated by implementing it in the kernel).

I have tried to identify all the standard programs which would have to be changed to accomodate this scheme. The actual time involved to modify "ls" was <HR> This Usenet Oldnews Archive article may be copied and distributed freely, provided: <P> 1. There is no money collected for the text(s) of the articles. <BR> 2. The following notice remains appended to each copy: <P> <EM>The Usenet Oldnews Archive: Compilation Copyright&copy 1981, 1996 <BR> Bruce Jones, Henry Spencer, David Wiseman.</EM> <P> <HR> Goto <A HREF="81.10.16_ucbvax.4492_fa.unix-wizards.html">NEXT</A> article in FA.unix-wizards Newsgroup <BR>Return to <A HREF="FA.unix-wizards-index.html">FA.unix-wizards index</A> <BR>Return to the <A HREF="../index.html">Usenet Oldnews Archive index</A> </HTML>

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