Re: EXT2_UNRM_FL

Pavel Machek (pavel@atrey.karlin.mff.cuni.cz)
Thu, 4 Mar 1999 12:58:02 +0100


Hi!

> OK, so do it in the C library, or write a wrapper for unlink(3) and
> use LD_PRELOAD and override that way. That just leaves old statically
> linked binaries. I don't consider this feature to be sufficiently
> critical such that old static binaries need it.

I actually did this one in LD_PRELOAD-able way.

Showstoppers were:

1) Directory /trashcan grows _really_ quickly, and ext2 does poor job
handling big directories
2) I never got to writing nice cleaner daemon.

Pavel

PS: Ask me for sources if you have solution for 2).

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