Re: rm patch suggestion

[Oystein Viggen]

* [Marcus Brinkmann] 

> On Tue, May 07, 2002 at 03:59:30PM -0400, Roland McGrath wrote:
>> Another approach to this whole issue would be to provide a "safety"
>> translator that gives you a virtual directory that accesses an
>> underlying filesystem with O_NOTRANS, and only follows translators on
>> nodes owned by root.
>
> Oh, and then
>
> settrans --chroot rm -rf / -- /tmp/untrusted /hurd/safety
>
> with a wrapper script "safety" like for fakeroot?

Ah, this actually seems to kill both rm and updatedb issues with the
proverbial single stone.

> I think the only headache would be filesystems that refuse to go away
> easily.  Maybe that's something the -f option could do: if the node is
> translated (assuming you see this, for example because of the safety
> translator above), then try to get rid off the translator as hard as
> possible, like the -f flag on settrans).

When doing an rm -Rf, you probably wouldn't be too concerned about the
files inside anyway, so I'd guess -f would be OK.

> Which reminds me, there are still some translators in the Hurd that don't
> obey to the standard rules for this (mostly obscure specialised
> translators), that's also a nice job for new Hurd hackers to fix.

Does this mean that translators can refuse to go away, even with -f?
I think I see another line of abuse for creative users..

Oystein
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