On Fri, 23 Mar 2007, Eric Paris wrote: > Maybe I'm way out on a limb here but if I am a regular user and I say > rm /tmp/* and I only have permissions to delete some of the files I > expect just those couple to be delete, not the whole operation denied.
I don't think this analogy holds up, as rm is a per-file deletion operation, and it is the shell which expands the wildcard for you. A 'flush' has a semantic implication that all entries will be removed, and it should be atomic and either succeed or fail at that granularity. - James -- James Morris <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> - To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe netdev" in the body of a message to [EMAIL PROTECTED] More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html
