On October 30, 2002 08:56 am, Andreas Mohr wrote:
Thus you could encounter an app which manages to trash your whole filesystem ANY DAY; this app simply needs to use a very rarely used function that we barely implemented... BOOM.
Andy, this is just crap, and it's the type of crap that we should not perpetuate. There are tons of reasons why this _never_ happens, and you know them. So let's not propagate this type of misinformation that we have already too much out there, and which hurts us undoubtedly.