Messages in this thread |  | | From | (Stephen R. van den Berg) | Date | Mon, 24 Jun 1996 22:00:39 +0200 | Subject | Re: Drawbacks of implementing undelete entirely in user space |
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Miquel van Smoorenburg <miquels@cistron.nl> wrote: >How about moving the deleted file into a directory .wastebasket/XXXXX, >where XXXXX is the inode number of the directory the file was in at >the moment it was deleted. If that directory has the same permissions
That implies that deleting files could potentially increase the space requirement on the disk (not good). Creating a directory is an "expensive" operation (uses non-negligible space and cpu/wallclock time).
I don't think those are desirable properties of an unlink() operator. -- Sincerely, srb@cuci.nl Stephen R. van den Berg (AKA BuGless).
Real programmers don't just die, they produce core dumps.
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