Date: Sat, 03 Jun 2000 22:26:12 -0600 From: Brett Glass <brett@lariat.org> To: "Thomas M. Sommers" <tms2@mail.ptd.net>, freebsd-chat@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: Why encourage stupid people to use *BSD WAS:Re: IE Message-ID: <4.3.2.7.2.20000603222418.04946e30@localhost> In-Reply-To: <3939A4B5.C62DF7F8@mail.ptd.net> References: <200006021842.LAA24897@usr09.primenet.com> <393855D9.F5F0E5F0@mail.ptd.net> <20000603095822.A13686@physics.iisc.ernet.in>
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At 06:37 PM 6/3/2000, Thomas M. Sommers wrote: >> What's wrong with having an undelete command, if someone can implement >> one? > >Nothing, *if* it can be implemented without affecting the integrity of >the system. But coming up with an implementation is not easy. There >are security concerns. How do undeleteable files interact with disk >quotas? How do they interact with multiple hard links? That, in the 30 >years since its creation, Unix has not come up with undelete strongly >suggests that either it can't be done or that there is no real need for >it. "Unix" (whatever it means in this context) may not have come up with an undelete command, but Norton Computing (now part of Symantec) did. The Norton Utilities for Unix never sold very well, but had this feature. --Brett Glass To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-chat" in the body of the message
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