Messages in this thread |  | | Date | Thu, 20 Jun 1996 12:13:25 +0300 (EET DST) | From | Johan Myréen <> | Subject | Re: Undelete in user space |
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On Wed, 19 Jun 1996, Rogier Wolff wrote:
> Undelete is a completely userspace implementable thing: > your libc's unlink call should be substituted by something that > renames the file to some /.wastebasket instead of simply > using the system's unlink system call.
Doesn't anybody else think adding crud to the libc system call wrappers is a Bad Thing?
If libc's unlink() function is changed as proposed it does not deserve to be in section 2 of the manual, and should be moved to unlink(3) and a line added to the BUGS section stating that there is no easy way to make the system call from a C program.
Johan Myreen jem@iki.fi
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