On Wed, Oct 30, 2002 at 10:46:28AM -0000, Dave Hooper wrote:
> > Yeah, I suppose we should rerelease. It can be fixed by removing the
> > backwards-compatible-to-single-dir-nativefsdirectory code. Then it will
> > only wipe files in the numbered subdirs that shouldn't be there. We
> > should perhaps put the temp files in the temp dir now that we have one,
> > and not delete anything anywhere else.
> 
> Yeh, I, unh, guess so.  Whose idea was it to implement backwards-
> compatibility as "delete all files in the current directory"?  Who reckoned
> that didn't have the potential to upset some of the users? :-)
Me. Sorry, I stored initially all files in the current directory; only
later did they become temp-* until they were committed; only later than
that did they go into subdirs. I'll put them all in the temp dir
(store/temp/) and only delete temp-* filenames from there.
> 
> >> Imagine the complaints if the user wants to put their datastore
> >> in the root of C:\
> 
> > It doesn't recurse.
> 
> Woohoo.  So it *only* has the potential to delete msdos.sys, config.sys,
> autoexec.bat, boot.ini and ntldr, thus rendering the operating system
> completely unbootable and probably unrecoverable.  Nice.
Unrecoverable? Certainly not :)
> 
> d
> 

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