Re: Hurd questions

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From: Andrew M. Langmead
Date: Mon, 27 Mar 1995 13:55

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Stefan 'Stetson' Skoglund <sp2stes1@ida.his.se> writes:
>You have to decide whom is gonna do this check.
>rm or the shell ??

There are two things that "rm" could do.

Count the number of files in the directory, and see if they match the
number of command line arguements. This would prevent "rm *" disasters.

Check if every file name is valid before unlinking. This would prevent
"rm * .o" disasters.
--
Andrew Langmead

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From: aml@world.std.com (Andrew M. Langmead)
Subject: Re: Hurd questions
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