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 11:18:34 -0500 From: Christopher Faylor To: cygwin@cygwin.com Subject: Re: Bug in rm -r with locked files Message-ID: <20030122161834.GG4903@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 11:06:22AM -0500, Brian.Kelly@empireblue.com wrote: >Yea yea yea - I know I know. I'm just bitchen to bitch. Problem is >already solved - MS del works just fine - it's just "Kludgy" is all. >I'll wait till someone gets around to it. ME?? Oh hey, I'm just a >"Perl" guy!! The only thing I've written in c is "hello world". Plus I >have NO time to learn c "and" trouble-shoot a nasty problem. Would >probably take me 3 to six months - and I'm workin 70-80 hour weeks as >it is. Am I grateful to those who "DO" know? SURE OF COURSE. So in >case anyone wants to accuse me of being a feeloading good-for-nothing >ingrate - I say this: > >THANK YOU >THANK YOU >THANK YOU 1000 >THANK YOU X 1000 > >There ... feel better? Not really. I'm still waiting for the $150,000. cgf >"Christopher Faylor" @cygwin.com on 01/22/2003 10:38:02 AM > >Please respond to cygwin@cygwin.com > >Sent by: cygwin-owner@cygwin.com > > >To: cygwin@cygwin.com >cc: (bcc: Brian Kelly/WTC1/Empire) > >Subject: Re: Bug in rm -r with locked files > > >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. -- 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/