On Mon, Jan 20, 2003 at 12:58:45PM -0500, Larry Jones wrote:
> Eric Siegerman writes [about setting the sticky bit]:
> > Doing that in the repo would break CVS completely, wouldn't it?
> Yes, for directories that contain files. We've been know to use it on
> directories that only contain subdirectories, however. Particularly the
> top-level repository directory.
Hmmm. I guess that's cheap insurance against "cd $CVSROOT; mv foo bar",
but what else does it get you? Seems to me it doesn't do much
about "rm -rf $CVSROOT/foo" or "rm -rf $CVSROOT"; by the time the
rmdir() fails, foo's content's already toast...
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