Re: rm -rf and the trashcan
Re: rm -rf and the trashcan
- Subject: Re: rm -rf and the trashcan
- From: Clark Cox <email@hidden>
- Date: Mon, 20 Jul 2009 11:08:58 -0700
On Mon, Jul 20, 2009 at 11:06 AM, Esteban
Bodigami<email@hidden> wrote:
> nah, a Unix-compatible version with a new user interface... that's all.
Changing the behavior of rm is not a simple user interface change, it
is a fundamental change that would render your new OS most definitely
not Unix-compatible.
> what
> is the equivalent of X in Mac btw? Aqua must use some kind of renderer... i
> was thinking of OpenGL, Darwin and Webkit as a base for my project.
>
> 2009/7/20 Jamison Hope <email@hidden>
>>
>> On Jul 20, 2009, at 12:59 PM, Esteban Bodigami wrote:
>>
>>> ...things change. empires fall, companies go bankrupt. people die, people
>>> are reborn... and you are saying that the rm command cann't change?
>>
>> Yes, that is what we're saying. rm cannot change. As long as Apple wants
>> to conform to the POSIX specification, rm must behave as described there:
>> http://www.unix.org/single_unix_specification/
>>
>> If you want to create a new operating system in which rm moves files to a
>> trash directory, time is counted in minutes since 1970, all function names
>> are in Spanish, and nobody's shell scripts work because nothing in /bin
>> behaves as expected, go for it. It just won't be Unix anymore.
--
Clark S. Cox III
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