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Be more reasonable when overwrite mode is specified while there

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is hard links.  Overwritting when links > 1 would cause data
loss, which is usually undesired.

Inspired by:	discussion on -hackers@
Suggested by:	elessar at bsdforen de
Obtained from:	OpenBSD
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delphij 2006-10-30 03:32:09 +00:00
parent 1846f70627
commit 633d73890b
2 changed files with 8 additions and 1 deletions
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bin/rm/rm.1
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@ -32,7 +32,7 @@
.\" @(#)rm.1 8.5 (Berkeley) 12/5/94
.\" $FreeBSD$
.\"
.Dd September 29, 2005
.Dd October 30, 2006
.Dt RM 1
.Os
.Sh NAME
@ -88,6 +88,8 @@ yet provides almost the same level of protection against mistakes.
Overwrite regular files before deleting them.
Files are overwritten three times, first with the byte pattern 0xff,
then 0x00, and then 0xff again, before they are deleted.
Files with multiple links will not be overwritten.
.Pp
Specifying this flag for a read only file will cause
.Nm
to generate an error message and exit.

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@ -400,6 +400,11 @@ rm_overwrite(char *file, struct stat *sbp)
}
if (!S_ISREG(sbp->st_mode))
return (1);
if (sbp->st_nlink > 1) {
warnx("%s (inode %u): not overwritten due to multiple links",
file, sbp->st_ino);
return (1);
}
if ((fd = open(file, O_WRONLY, 0)) == -1)
goto err;
if (fstatfs(fd, &fsb) == -1)