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Cliff writes:

> What is highly unlikely often happens.

That is a logical impossibility.

> Well, you have obviously never been a system
> manager.

Actually, I have.

> Such a script (the front end) would be implemented
> by a System Manager.  The latter would also be
> under his/her control and he/she would be aware
> of how to call the real rm in this case.

When I deleted files as a system manager, I expected them to disappear, not move to another location.  Users who carelessly deleted
files had to have them restored, and I made sure that took long enough or cost them enough money to give them time to reflect on
their carelessness.

> Besides which System management practise would
> dictate you are given warnings of impending disk
> space shortage.

That might not help if it occurs in a script.

> There are better ways of doing this than changing
> system program source code.

Such as?


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