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From: Eli Carter <eli.carter@inet.com>
To: Xavier Bestel <xavier.bestel@free.fr>
Cc: Matthias Schniedermeyer <ms@citd.de>,
	"Richard B. Johnson" <johnson@quark.analogic.com>,
	Linux Kernel Mailing List <linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org>
Subject: Re: Everything gone!
Date: Wed, 19 Mar 2003 10:51:14 -0600	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <3E78A002.70004@inet.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: 1048091858.989.10.camel@bip.localdomain.fake

Xavier Bestel wrote:
> Le mer 19/03/2003 à 17:04, Matthias Schniedermeyer a écrit :
> 
> 
>>rm -rf *
>>Should do the same(*) but with much better speed.
>>
>>Normaly the system should lockup at sometime while doing it.
>>
>>
>>
>>
>>*: OK. The version above will "break" in the middle after "/bin/rm" (or
>>"/lib/libc.so.6") got deleted.
> 
> 
> That would be surprising. Did you actually try it ? :)

The complex version that you snipped would break because it invokes rm 
for each file.  The simpler version he gave would not break at that 
point because it is already running.  Hence the footnote ton the word 
'same'.

HTH,

Eli
--------------------. "If it ain't broke now,
Eli Carter           \                  it will be soon." -- crypto-gram
eli.carter(a)inet.com `-------------------------------------------------


  reply	other threads:[~2003-03-19 16:40 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 17+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2003-03-19 15:46 Everything gone! Richard B. Johnson
2003-03-19 16:02 ` Richard B. Johnson
2003-03-19 17:33   ` John Jasen
2003-03-19 17:50     ` Richard B. Johnson
2003-03-19 17:55     ` Jesse Pollard
2003-03-19 18:12       ` Richard B. Johnson
2003-03-20  2:04         ` Joshua Kwan
2003-03-19 21:18   ` James H. Cloos Jr.
2003-03-19 16:04 ` Matthias Schniedermeyer
2003-03-19 16:21   ` Richard B. Johnson
2003-03-19 16:37   ` Xavier Bestel
2003-03-19 16:51     ` Eli Carter [this message]
2003-03-19 17:12       ` Xavier Bestel
2003-03-19 17:01     ` Richard B. Johnson
2003-03-19 18:23       ` Eric Weigle
2003-03-19 18:32         ` Matthias Schniedermeyer
2003-03-20  8:57       ` Sean Neakums

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