From: Xavier Bestel <xavier.bestel@free.fr>
To: Eli Carter <eli.carter@inet.com>
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: 19 Mar 2003 18:12:29 +0100 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <1048093949.989.13.camel@bip.localdomain.fake> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <3E78A002.70004@inet.com>
Le mer 19/03/2003 à 17:51, Eli Carter a écrit :
> 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'.
Aah, yes; I read a bit too fast. *hides*
Xav
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2003-03-19 17:01 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 17+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2003-03-19 15:46 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
2003-03-19 17:12 ` Xavier Bestel [this message]
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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