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Date: Wed, 22 Jan 2003 10:38:02 -0500
From: Christopher Faylor <cgf AT redhat DOT com>
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Subject: Re: Bug in rm -r with locked files
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On Wed, Jan 22, 2003 at 06:44:13AM -0500, Brian DOT Kelly AT empireblue DOT 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

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