Re: libtrash

[Sriram Ramkrishna <sri aracnet com>]

What about BSD and other machines.  I would hate to see us have
all these special features only on linux.

sri


On Mon, Jul 28, 2003 at 10:29:28PM +0200, Rodrigo Moya wrote:
> Hi
> 
> Looking over the list of Debian packages I've found libtrash:
> 
> Package: libtrash
> Priority: optional
> Section: libs
> Installed-Size: 164
> Maintainer: Timshel Knoll <timshel debian org>
> Architecture: i386
> Version: 1.5-1
> Depends: libc6 (>= 2.3.1-1)
> Filename: pool/main/libt/libtrash/libtrash_1.5-1_i386.deb
> Size: 45484
> MD5sum: d1158a89224ecb37bb23e298f5a4560a
> Description: A trash can library to use with LD_PRELOAD
>  libtrash is a shared library which, when preloaded,
>  implements a trash can under GNU/Linux. This way, your
>  mistakes (at least those of the "rm -rf dir /" class :-))
>  will no longer cause the loss of a week's work or your
>  system's binaries.
> 
> It implements the unlink system call and thus catches all removals, done
> via the command line, nautilus, etc.
> 
> Has anybody evaluated using this in GNOME? The best advantage I can see
> is that the files removed in the terminal would show up in nautilus
> trash.
> 
> cheers
> 
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