Ading a wastebasket

[Michael Meskes <meskes@usa.net>]

Since I happen to remove files I still need quite often I'm thinking about
adding a feature that only moves the file out of the way, but still keeps
them on the machine.

There is only one such mechanism I know of, namely the delete program as rm
replacement from the MIT Athena project. But for several reasons I don't
really like it. Most importantly of course it is not really rm compatible.
But also because it cannot prevent you from removing files from an
application.

So I wonder whether these is a package taking care of this. Otherwise I
might consider writing one. My idea would be to create a library that
overloads the unlink() call. I wonder if others would be interested in this
too.

Michael
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