From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Message-ID: <3D1C7B8B.7F5284AE@strakt.com> From: Boyd Roberts MIME-Version: 1.0 To: 9fans@cse.psu.edu Subject: Re: [9fans] dumb question References: , <3D1C2D03.B288CC2B@strakt.com> <3D1C6EBC.24AAE27E@null.net> Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Date: Fri, 28 Jun 2002 17:06:51 +0200 Topicbox-Message-UUID: bd93d038-eaca-11e9-9e20-41e7f4b1d025 "Douglas A. Gwyn" wrote: > But in general one might be processing files named by somebody else, > e.g. to move the last user off a mounted filesystem onto a new > larger one. And in general it's a serious problem: Oh definitely. That's why in this case I made the 'process' run as the user. They can trash their own world. I guess as a side effect it would have found such lurking traps. I couldn't see the benefit in going to a lot of trouble for yet another end case in something that was designed as a convenience, rather than a guarantee. Yet another tradeoff. Didn't 8th Ed find .. -print0 | apply get this right?