The safety expansion for FreeBSD rm(1)

Daichi GOTO daichi at freebsd.org
Tue Sep 25 09:33:33 PDT 2007


Ivan Voras wrote:
> Daichi GOTO wrote:
>> Hi Guys again
>>
>> Today is not unionfs. 
> 
> How is the unionfs patch progressing through re ? :) I hope it gets 
> digested soon :)

I have sent a aprove request to re@ and been waiting for replay.
I have a hope to get aproval mail too :)  I beleive in that recent
unionfs patches bunch is well viewed and working very good.

>> We have created safety expansion for rm(1). If you have any interests,
>> please try follow patch.
>>
>>   http://people.freebsd.org/~daichi/safety-rm/
> 
> This looks useful, but shouldn't this feature be handled more globally, 
> with a MAC policy or something like that?

Yes, that is not depending to MAC or other comprehensive access
framework. At the beginning, what's important is that I have anyone
needs that feature or not ;-)  If someone needs that feature, I
will get the work of more comprehensive mechanism.


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