Messages in this thread |  | | Date | Sun, 8 Dec 1996 21:57:32 -0500 (EST) | From | Nathan Bryant <> | Subject | Re: Very serious bug |
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On Sun, 8 Dec 1996, Richard B. Johnson wrote:
> > > Just something very curious. I notice that responses to this service > that contain certain key-words don't get forwarded. For instance if > I use the word, very common in Unix, that refers to what happens when > you send a process a signal 9, that message does not get forwarded. > > I was responding to a Linux user who thought that the inability to > un-remove a file was "A very serious BUG". I mentioned that many things > are considered final in Unix, amongst them rm and "k...". The fact that > one can't un-remove a file cannot, by the greatest stretch or imagination be > called a "BUG". > > I have used the kword at other times and noticed that the message didn't > get forwarded. Now, I think that "THIS is a very serious bug!!"
kill kill kill kill kill! die! [spit]
Okay, sorry about the outburst, but I had to see for myself. It's pretty hard to believe that such a bug would exist without being a deliberate "feature."
+-----------------------+----------------------------------+ | Nathan Bryant | Resident Unix Geek | | nathan@burgessinc.com | Burgess Business Solutions, Inc. | +-----------------------+----------------------------------+
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