svn commit: r214596 - head/bin/rm

Ceri Davies ceri at submonkey.net
Tue Nov 2 09:29:31 UTC 2010


On Tue, Nov 02, 2010 at 01:40:59AM +0000, Alexander Best wrote:
> 
> how about a compromise then? let's leave the -P switch in rm, but make it a no
> op! in addition to that add a new rm(1) entry explaining what the -P switch did
> and why exactly it was turned into a no op. let's be really eloborate on this
> issue and tell the user exactly every tiny detail that lead to the conclusion
> that currently the -P switch serves no purpose and thus it was turned into a no
> op. also a statement should be added to rm(1) that makes clear that the -P flag
> *will* come back to rm, once the low level work has been finished in order to
> decide (from userland) whether a specific disk supports overwriting blocks or
> not.

Making it a no-op silently breaks it even in the cases where it was working
before.  It should fail.

Ceri
-- 
Haffely, Gaffely, Gaffely, Gonward.
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