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RE: [SUMMARY] removing files owned by others
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (ROGER_M1@VERIFONE.COM)
Wed Nov 18 16:48:22 1998
From: ROGER_M1@VERIFONE.COM
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Date: Wed, 18 Nov 1998 11:48:56 -1000
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If this seems odd it may help to remember that, technically, rm does
not delete files. It only removes the link to the file from the
directory involved. Then, if there are no other links to the file
and no process has it open it is deleted.
This may seem like nit-picking, but I think it is helpful to
understand that the behavior is not an arbitrary decision, but a
logical consequence of the Unix file system design.
> ----------
> From: Tomas Buday[SMTP:tomas@snt.sk]
> Sent: Wednesday, November 18, 1998 2:35 AM
> To: redhat-list@redhat.com
> Subject: [SUMMARY] removing files owned by others
>
> ok,
> files not owned by USER can be removed by USER as long as
> the directory it resides in, is owned by USER.
> tomas
>
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