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Re: Bug in rm -r with locked files


Hi Chris...

By my calculation you have received over $150,000.00 in total from everyone...Unfortunately each payment was $0.02. ;-)

...Karl

From: Christopher Faylor <cgf@redhat.com>
Reply-To: cygwin@cygwin.com
To: cygwin@cygwin.com
Subject: Re: Bug in rm -r with locked files
Date: Wed, 22 Jan 2003 11:18:34 -0500

On Wed, Jan 22, 2003 at 11:06:22AM -0500, Brian.Kelly@empireblue.com wrote:
>Yea yea yea - I know I know. I'm just bitchen to bitch. Problem is
>already solved - MS del works just fine - it's just "Kludgy" is all.
>I'll wait till someone gets around to it. ME?? Oh hey, I'm just a
>"Perl" guy!! The only thing I've written in c is "hello world". Plus I
>have NO time to learn c "and" trouble-shoot a nasty problem. Would
>probably take me 3 to six months - and I'm workin 70-80 hour weeks as
>it is. Am I grateful to those who "DO" know? SURE OF COURSE. So in
>case anyone wants to accuse me of being a feeloading good-for-nothing
>ingrate - I say this:
>
>THANK YOU
>THANK YOU
>THANK YOU 1000
>THANK YOU X 1000
>
>There ... feel better?

Not really. I'm still waiting for the $150,000.

cgf

>"Christopher Faylor" <cgf@redhat.com>@cygwin.com on 01/22/2003 10:38:02 AM
>
>Please respond to cygwin@cygwin.com
>
>Sent by: cygwin-owner@cygwin.com
>
>
>To: cygwin@cygwin.com
>cc: (bcc: Brian Kelly/WTC1/Empire)
>
>Subject: Re: Bug in rm -r with locked files
>
>
>On Wed, Jan 22, 2003 at 06:44:13AM -0500, Brian.Kelly@empireblue.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.

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