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Re: Shred and symbolic links. People use it like a safer "rm" and get...
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Antonio |
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Re: Shred and symbolic links. People use it like a safer "rm" and get... |
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Thu, 25 Sep 2008 01:00:34 +0200 |
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> Consistency is more important.
From some points of view this is behaviour more consistent.
But, as the use case presented, when the normal user Peter has a temporary
copy of a folder and executes "shred *"... for Peter it's more consistent
shredding the content of the folder (and only this) than... shredding the
contents of other folders because of symlinks) :-(
Shredding only the content of the folder is not only more consistent for him,
it's also safe for the normal user. Doing "shred *" is crazy nowadays, who
knows what you are shredding, Peter has extra steps (watching one by one the
files to see if there is a symlink) and those make the process more unsafe.
At least there could be an option to stop shred from following symlinks.
Thanks