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Re: backwards recursive chowning
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Bob Proulx |
Subject: |
Re: backwards recursive chowning |
Date: |
Thu, 13 Nov 2003 11:08:02 -0700 |
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Mutt/1.3.28i |
Bob Proulx wrote:
> Evan McNabb wrote:
> > I know rm doesn't do this any more, and that has saved many people's
> > systems.
>
> Huh? There isn't any special code in there. But I did see a very
> huge long debate in the standards list about whether it should
> specifically allow a system to implement such a check. It would be
> very difficult to do that in practice however.
I stand corrected. Jim just clued me in that rm does currently refuse
to remove "." or "..", as special cases. With other improvements
coming in the future. I have not been keeping up! Sorry about that.
Bob
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