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Subject: Re: Everything gone!
From: Xavier Bestel <xavier.bestel@free.fr>
To: Eli Carter <eli.carter@inet.com>
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Le mer 19/03/2003 ? 17:51, Eli Carter a ?crit :
> Xavier Bestel wrote:
> > Le mer 19/03/2003 ? 17:04, Matthias Schniedermeyer a ?crit :
> > 
> > 
> >>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

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