Date: Mon, 30 Aug 1999 12:09:38 -0700 (PDT) From: "Rodney W. Grimes" <freebsd@gndrsh.dnsmgr.net> To: imp@village.org (Warner Losh) Cc: bde@zeta.org.au (Bruce Evans), dynamo@ime.net, security@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: Not sure if you got it... Message-ID: <199908301909.MAA66317@gndrsh.dnsmgr.net> In-Reply-To: <199908301807.MAA04962@harmony.village.org> from Warner Losh at "Aug 30, 1999 12:07:23 pm"
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> In message <199908301801.LAA66101@gndrsh.dnsmgr.net> "Rodney W. Grimes" writes: > : > In message <199908300307.NAA06836@godzilla.zeta.org.au> Bruce Evans writes: > : > : >Is there a better way to turn off all the user flags then? > : > : > : > : Turning them all off works of course: > : > : > : > : chflags dump,noopaque,nouappnd,nochg,nouunlnk > : > : > : > : Is this better :-)? It's not future-proof. I'd prefer `chflags nouflags'. > : > > : > Any objections to chflags nouflags going into the tree, modulo > : > problems with the actual code that does it? > : > : I don't have a problem with that. > : > : > > : > I'd also like to have a new flag to rm. -F. One -F will be > : > chflags nouflags foo ; rm -f foo > : > while two -F will be > : > chflags 0 foo ; rm -f foo > : > : I have a problem with this, it means updating 1 more chunk of code > : should the set of items in uflags change. > > I was going to define something like UF_USERFLAGS and SF_SYSFLAGS as > well... 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? I was sick when they added -R to cp (why did they do that anyway?), yes I got even sicker that once we did that we had to add -v, yes, I am an old fart who is set in his ways ... :-) -- Rod Grimes - KD7CAX - (RWG25) rgrimes@gndrsh.dnsmgr.net To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-security" in the body of the message
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