On Mon, 30 Apr 2001, Chris Byrnes wrote: > > It might be, depending on what you were feeding it to. I think the > > point people are making is that directory data is, in certain cases, > > also potentially useful for something they might conceivably want to > > do, and if you yourself don't want to look at it then you shouldn't > > ask the system to show it to you. "Doctor, it hurts when I poke > > myself in the eye.." :) > > We have rm -rf to protect us from doing things to directories (IE: rm > /poop). This avoids catastraphic file removals. > We need tail -argument to protect us from doing things to directories. This avoids nothing. To Unsubscribe: send mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with "unsubscribe freebsd-stable" in the body of the message
