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Re: Defect in XCU rm

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Subject: Re: Defect in XCU rm
From: Dragan Cvetkovic <yyyyyy@xxxxxxxxxxx>
Date: Thu, 13 Mar 2003 14:43:03 -0500 (EST)
On Thu, 13 Mar 2003, Jim Zepeda wrote:

> I have sat and read all of the discussion on this.
> 
> While it would be nice to have the operating system check for
> programming errors, that would be totally impractical.
> 
> I would suggest that the way to deal with this defect report would be,
> at most, to simply document that the script programmer should test for
> null variables at critical points in their script.
> 

Agreed there. What I wouldn't like is to have a situation similar to MS
Windows where you are not allowed to remove e.g. 'My Documents' and
'Temporary Internet Folder'.

Also, if we change rm, would it be mean that we will have to change unlink
command?

Bye, Dragan

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Dr Dragan Cvetkovic, Soliton Inc., yyyyyy@xxxxxxxxxxx

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