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- From: lauther@ztivax.UUCP (Dr Ulrich Lauther)
- Newsgroups: comp.os.coherent
- Subject: Re: 4.0, Low level IO and problems...
- Message-ID: <12878@ztivax.UUCP>
- Date: 25 Aug 92 07:07:27 GMT
- References: <SJE.92Aug14141342@xylos.ma30.bull.com> <9208192524@umunk.GUN.de> <1992Aug20.201610.16702@news.mentorg.com>
- Reply-To: lauther@ztivax.siemens.com (Ulrich Lauther)
- Organization: Siemens, ZFE BT SE 14
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- > A faster and more efficient way is to have rm make a hard link to the
- >file in a save directory before it unlinks it. Much faster than copying bytes.
- > Of course, need to make provisions for people removing files of the
- >same name, and usually want a way to automatically remove old saved files when
- >need the space on the file system.
- >
- This does not seem to solve the real problem: files accidentially destroyed
- by overwriting them, e.g. directing output to a file.
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