Re: Undelete in user space

Marco Mariani (m.mariani@imola.nettuno.it)
Fri, 21 Jun 1996 00:12:57 -0100 (GMT-0100)


On Wed, 19 Jun 1996, Rogier Wolff wrote:

> Undelete is a completely userspace implementable thing:
> your libc's unlink call should be substituted by something that
> renames the file to some /.wastebasket instead of simply
> using the system's unlink system call.

But so, the user (and not only the unexperienced one) cannot tell
if he can trust a program deleting "the safe way" without asking for
"ldd <program>", because statically linked binaries would still
unlink the old way. Or would not? Has the binary been linked with
a libc-undelete or with a libc-oldway?

All The Best,
Marco

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