Re: Proposal: B_ARRIER (addresses wapbl performance?)

[Thor Lancelot Simon <tls%rek.tjls.com@localhost>]

On Wed, Oct 29, 2008 at 06:43:44PM -0400, der Mouse wrote:
> > I'd like to propose a new buffer flag, B_ARRIER.
> 
> I'd suggest B_BARRIER.

I suppose you're right. :-)

> > "Even experienced UNIX users occasionally enter rm *.* at the UNIX
> >  prompt only to realize too late that they have removed the wrong
> >  segment of the directory structure." - Microsoft WSS whitepaper
> 
> I find that particularly amusing because I can't recall ever running
> "rm *.*" even deliberately; removing everything with a dot in its name
> and nothing else is...not a common operation for me.  (Now, if they'd
> said "rm -f *".... :-)

Well, yes.  It immediately struck me that way, too.  But you're, so far,
the only other person who seems to think so...

Thor