Re: Delete a file THAT big? Surely you are joking.

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From: Yossi Kreinin
Subject: Re: Delete a file THAT big? Surely you are joking.
Date: 07:45 on 19 Dec 2006

> 
>>I'm a programmer. My program created a big file. Give me the
>>POWER to *DELETE* *MY* *FILE*!!
> 
> 
> On Windows, you'd be told the file is busy and it wouldn't be
> deleted. How is that giving you the POWER to DELETE. YOUR. FILE?
> 

At least Windows fans aren't arguing it's "powerful", just that it's useful. I'm 
not a Windows fan though.

So if Windows does it bad, does it justify whatever Unix does, or should we 
compare to the sensible thing to do instead?

During the cold war, whenever a Soviet official was asked about human rights in 
the USSR or such, the immediate response would be "In the USA they lynch niggers!"

There's stuff above here

A. Pagaltzis 19:11 on 18 Dec 2006
- Yossi Kreinin 07:45 on 19 Dec 2006
  - Rafael Garcia-Suarez 09:32 on 19 Dec 2006
  - Peter da Silva 13:05 on 19 Dec 2006
  - sabrina downard 14:03 on 19 Dec 2006

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