Subject: Re: CVS commit: src/usr.bin/find
To: Martin Husemann <martin@duskware.de>
From: SODA Noriyuki <soda@sra.co.jp>
List: tech-userlevel
Date: 02/09/2007 02:26:54
>>>>> On Thu, 8 Feb 2007 18:19:06 +0100,
Martin Husemann <martin@duskware.de> said:
> I'm not sure we need to bother core here - I only have seen support for the
> new option from a 1 person minority yet. Everyone else seems to be happy
> with find -print0 | xargs -0 rm.
That's insecure for the daily processing due to the symbolic link race.
On the other hand, -delete is secure.
So "find -print0 | xargs -0 rm." and "find -delete" aren't same thing.
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soda