Re: [PLUG] toy story2 nearly lost with rm*

[Conor Schaefer <conor.schaefer@gmail.com>]

On Thu, May 24, 2012 at 11:10 AM, Doug Stewart <zamoose@gmail.com> wrote:

On Thu, May 24, 2012 at 11:02 AM, Rich Freeman
<r-plug@thefreemanclan.net> wrote:
> I'm not suggesting that the OS make it impossible to delete a file
> unrecoverably, only that this not be the default behavior. ÂWhat
> benefit does this behavior have?

Space and performance, both of which are diminishing concerns at this
point, I'll grant you.

The `-i` behavior is just such an affordance -- an attempt to change
the default behavior to an AYS one, at least.

Straw man argument; that isn't what Rich was talking about. He was saying, I think, that rm's current functionality is a bit silly and outdated, considering the usability possible with current technology. Personally, I don't think there's any benefit to the way rm works: it just hasn't evolved (which, admittedly, is all of our faults, in some way).
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>
> I've got no issues with requiring binaries to be signed to run either,
> as long as I'm the only one with the root signing keys.
>
> Rich

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-Doug

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