[Gllug] [OT ?] Filesystem ACLs

[David Damerell]

On Wednesday, 11 Aug 2004, Mike Brodbelt wrote:
>I read about something similar once upon a time. It was a software
>package called "Entomb" that intercepted system rm calls using a library
>preload. Whenever a file was deleted, entomb would make a safe copy
>somewhere, and there were a couple of entomb specific "undelete"
>commands. The comment made about it was that it was problematic, as
>users got used to the safety net it provided, and then got very cross
>when they accidentally trashed important things on systems not running
>the entomb software.

The real answer to this one is that by all means one should have a
non-permanent deletion command, but it absolutely should not be called
"rm". Then when users get used to it, it will just not work on other
systems.

-- 
David Damerell <damerell at chiark.greenend.org.uk> flcl?
-- 
Gllug mailing list  -  Gllug at gllug.org.uk
http://lists.gllug.org.uk/mailman/listinfo/gllug