On Sun, Oct 03, 2004, Giorgos Keramidas wrote: > On 2004-10-02 17:22, Garance A Drosihn <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > At 8:57 PM +0300 10/2/04, Giorgos Keramidas wrote: > > >On 2004-10-02 21:23, Lee Harr <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > >> How about: > > >> chflags sunlnk / > > >> ? > > > > > >Setting sunlink on / will only protect the / directory, not its > > >descendants, so you don't gain much. > > > > We could add a new flag "srunlnk", or maybe even "srm-r". The "rm" > > command will always have to stat() the file it is given (just to > > see if it is a directory), so it could check to see if this flag > > is turned on. If it is turned on, then 'rm' could refuse to honor > > any '-rf' request on that directory. [...] > > Hmmm. This sounds much better indeed :-)
Give a choice between an elegant 50-line solution involving kernel changes and a somewhat inelegant but complete 3-line solution, I have to say I'd opt for the 3-line solution... _______________________________________________ [EMAIL PROTECTED] mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-hackers To unsubscribe, send any mail to "[EMAIL PROTECTED]"
