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Date:      Tue, 6 Jun 2000 11:33:46 +0200 (EET)
From:      Narvi <narvi@haldjas.folklore.ee>
To:        Brett Glass <brett@lariat.org>
Cc:        Giorgos Keramidas <keramida@ceid.upatras.gr>, "Thomas M. Sommers" <tms2@mail.ptd.net>, freebsd-chat@FreeBSD.ORG
Subject:   Re: Undelete in Unix (Was: Re: Why encourage stupid people to  use *BSD)
Message-ID:  <Pine.BSF.3.96.1000606113137.2330F-100000@haldjas.folklore.ee>
In-Reply-To: <4.3.2.7.2.20000605142053.04aa2ee0@localhost>

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On Mon, 5 Jun 2000, Brett Glass wrote:

> At 03:10 AM 6/5/2000, Narvi wrote:
> 
> >I don't know how they implemented it - but I would start with a daemon
> >running as root to which both the "delete" and "undelete" commands speak
> >to. 
> 
> I'd do it with an lkm that hooked syscalls.
> 

But that provides more than most things under NT - guranteed undelete of
any file, no matter how deleted. 

Hooking unlink also produces a lot of problems, especially if the user
runs any suid programs, esp. if those happen to use temporary files...

> --Brett
> 



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