Path: utzoo!utgpu!news-server.csri.toronto.edu!rpi!usc!cs.utexas.edu!uunet!rbj From: rbj@uunet.UU.NET (Root Boy Jim) Newsgroups: comp.lang.perl Subject: Re: Crafty automatic file deletion? Message-ID: <127625@uunet.UU.NET> Date: 5 Apr 91 20:12:55 GMT References: <126658@uunet.UU.NET> <1991Apr5.001508.16154@NCoast.ORG> Organization: UUNET Communications Services, Falls Church, VA Lines: 20 In article <1991Apr5.001508.16154@NCoast.ORG> allbery@ncoast.ORG (Brandon S. Allbery KB8JRR/AA) writes: ?As quoted from <126658@uunet.UU.NET> by rbj@uunet.UU.NET (Root Boy Jim): ?+--------------- ?| Besides, you have to be smart enuf not to follow symbolic links :-) ?+--------------- ? ?I can't help it that Jim's on one of those systems where you have to use ?symlinks in dangerous ways merely in order to survive [ :-) ] but I'll have ?the default symlink traversal flag configurable (that is, aside from the ?predicates themselves). This is not funny anymore. You know damn well what kind of system we have. SYMLINKS ARE NOT TO BE TRAVERSED BY DEFAULT. Ignore for the moment that it's the correct thing to do, and consider that it is the standard way of doing thing is real BSD derived UNIX. The fact that other people, notably the toys that Brandon seems to be stuck with, do it differently merely attests to their ignorance. -- [rbj@uunet 1] stty sane unknown mode: sane