Bug#316468: [Pkg-sysvinit-devel] Bug#316468: Implement, but assist backporters?

Henrique de Moraes Holschuh hmh at debian.org
Thu Jan 5 17:00:19 UTC 2006


On Thu, 05 Jan 2006, Thomas Hood wrote:
> Well, the submitter also claimed as advantages: eliminates the dependency on
> xargs; is tidier; is less vulnerable to problems with very deep directory
> hierarchies. The current code can only delete as many files as can be deleted
> in a single rm command---which is no greater than the maximum number of
> command line arguments.

Which are all good reasons to use -delete.  My opinion is that we should use
it (as I said, backporters are really playing with fire by backporting the
initscripts).

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  Henrique Holschuh



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