> Consistency is more important. From some points of view this is behaviour more consistent.
But, as the use case presented, when the normal user Peter has a temporary copy of a folder and executes "shred *"... for Peter it's more consistent shredding the content of the folder (and only this) than... shredding the contents of other folders because of symlinks) :-( Shredding only the content of the folder is not only more consistent for him, it's also safe for the normal user. Doing "shred *" is crazy nowadays, who knows what you are shredding, Peter has extra steps (watching one by one the files to see if there is a symlink) and those make the process more unsafe. At least there could be an option to stop shred from following symlinks. Thanks _______________________________________________ Bug-coreutils mailing list [email protected] http://lists.gnu.org/mailman/listinfo/bug-coreutils
