Mailing-List: contact cygwin-help@cygwin.com; run by ezmlm List-Subscribe: List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: , Sender: cygwin-owner@cygwin.com Mail-Followup-To: cygwin@cygwin.com Delivered-To: mailing list cygwin@cygwin.com Date: Wed, 22 Jan 2003 10:38:02 -0500 From: Christopher Faylor To: cygwin@cygwin.com Subject: Re: Bug in rm -r with locked files Message-ID: <20030122153802.GC4903@redhat.com> Reply-To: cygwin@cygwin.com Mail-Followup-To: cygwin@cygwin.com References: Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Disposition: inline In-Reply-To: User-Agent: Mutt/1.5.1i On Wed, Jan 22, 2003 at 06:44:13AM -0500, Brian.Kelly@empireblue.com wrote: >Except when you're dealing with more than 10,000 files on a fortune >1000 web portal. Chmoding the whole thing imposes an "oppressive" >delay. > >Darn - hey boss - where's that $300,000 you promised me for commercial >deployment software???? What? - you'll talk to me after you get done >laying off my co-worker? OH ... OKAY!!!!! How about you give me $150,000 and I'll solve the problem for you? Either that or come up with a patch to fix the problem. Sadly, free software doesn't mean "works perfectly or your problem gets fixed for free". Quite the contrary, it gives *you* the freedom to modify the source to fix problems. cgf -- Unsubscribe info: http://cygwin.com/ml/#unsubscribe-simple Bug reporting: http://cygwin.com/bugs.html Documentation: http://cygwin.com/docs.html FAQ: http://cygwin.com/faq/