Date: Mon, 30 Aug 1999 13:14:21 -0600 From: Warner Losh <imp@village.org> To: "Rodney W. Grimes" <freebsd@gndrsh.dnsmgr.net> Cc: bde@zeta.org.au (Bruce Evans), dynamo@ime.net, security@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: Not sure if you got it... Message-ID: <199908301914.NAA05430@harmony.village.org> In-Reply-To: Your message of "Mon, 30 Aug 1999 12:09:38 PDT." <199908301909.MAA66317@gndrsh.dnsmgr.net> References: <199908301909.MAA66317@gndrsh.dnsmgr.net>
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In message <199908301909.MAA66317@gndrsh.dnsmgr.net> "Rodney W. Grimes" writes: : It still goes aginst my ingrained Unix ideal that says each command : should do one thing and one thing only, but do it really well. If you : need to do 2 things you should glue 2 commands togeather. Have we all : fallen off the rocker and forgotten this is one of the design concepts : behind unix, and one of the things that has made it such a powerful : operating system that has withstood the test of time over and over? rm -f integrates rm and chmod. -f is defined to be "force removal of file" which should imply removing user flags, but doing so would be present certain difficulties.. Warner To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-security" in the body of the message
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