RE: Bug in rm -r with locked files

["lhall at pop dot ma dot ultranet dot com" <lhall at pop dot ma dot ultranet dot com>]

See if you can find it and get everyone to use it quickly
please! ;-)

Larry

Original Message:
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From: Shankar Unni shankar@cotagesoft.com
Date: Wed, 22 Jan 2003 11:17:39 -0800
To: cygwin@cygwin.com
Subject: RE: Bug in rm -r with locked files


Larry Hall writes:

>>Now why was it important to do this "delayed remove" semantics? 

> [...] the current behavior is meant to combat the "my script/program 
> deletes the file/directory then tries to recreate it - why isn't the
> file/directory deleted when unlink() returns?" issue.

Ah.  

I hate those tools that do that wonderful "create temp file, open it,
and unlink it" dance. I'm not convinced that there aren't other ways to
"secure the app" that are more friendly and portable..

Thanks,
-- 
Shankar


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