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PFC == Preston F Crow <crow@coos.dartmouth.edu>

  Michael> I don't like all these rm changing suggestions.  What I
  Michael> think would be a great idea is the adoption of a command
  Michael> `trash' with identical arguments to rm, but doing a mac like
  Michael> trashcan system, where it just moves the files.

  PFC> Ugh.  There are a dozen simple ways of doing this. [...]  The point
  PFC> is, though, that this has absolutely *nothing* to do with HURD, or
  PFC> any other operating system.  The program used to delete files is just
  PFC> that, a program.  It's a user application.

Not entirely.  This assumes that the only time one deletes a file is from
the command-line using the standard 'rm'.  This is simply not the case; I
almost never use this command, as I do most file maintenance from within
Emacs, which I assume is using unlink(2).  There are a great many other
programs that use unlink as well.  In order to implement this new rm
correctly, then, one needs to be able to modify the functionality of unlink,
in all situations, so that no deletions seep through the cracks.  This kind
of modification is most definitely an OS issue, and I would be impressed by
a system in which this was possible at a user level without recompiled libc.

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