Trash mechanism

[Dave Cridland]

On Wed Aug 25 12:05:59 2004, Mike Hearn wrote:
> A better solution is either:
> 
> - to implement this at the FS level, so there is a userspace API to 
> locate deleted files and undelete them, with space being selected 
> for reuse based on the age of the deleted files and then actually 
> deleted atomically
> 
> OR
> 
> - to have a freedesktop API specifically for trashing files, 
> whereby trashing is something you only do for user documents and 
> not for system level files.

Yes, this all seems much more sane, forget what I said. :-)

Dave.