Date: Tue, 16 Jun 1998 22:11:00 +1000 (EST) From: "Daniel O'Callaghan" <danny@panda.hilink.com.au> To: Dag-Erling Coidan Smørgrav <smoergrd@oslo.geco-prakla.slb.com> Cc: Bruce Evans <bde@zeta.org.au>, phk@critter.freebsd.dk, rivers@dignus.com, asami@FreeBSD.ORG, freebsd-bugs@FreeBSD.ORG, zach@gaffaneys.com Subject: Re: bin/6653 Message-ID: <Pine.BSF.3.91.980616220920.9997k-100000@panda.hilink.com.au> In-Reply-To: <rx4u35ltvfq.fsf@oslo.geco-prakla.slb.com>
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On 16 Jun 1998, Dag-Erling Coidan Smørgrav wrote: > Bruce Evans <bde@zeta.org.au> writes: > > - `rm -rf *' may fail if there are filenames beginning with "-". > > - `rm -rf *' and `rm -rf /var/run/*' both fail if there are filenames > > beginning with ".". This may be a feature. > > cd /var/run > rm -rf -- * .??* I think what Bruce was getting at was that /var/run/.sudo and the like may be a solution to the problem of "to nuke or not to nuke" in /var/run at boot time. Danny To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-bugs" in the body of the message
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