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Comments for athena-delete

Unfortunately, recursive expunge (or purge) segfaults on modern Linux (Centos 5.2)

Reaping may not happen
The manual page talks about 'deleted' files being periodically reaped (by a process that deletes all files with names beginning .#). Of course this will not necessarily happen on today's systems.

Changes to compile
To compile on Linux, you need to change two definitions in the makefile. Set COMPILE_ET=compile_et and ETINCS=-I/usr/include/et. These are for the com_err error reporting library, which bizarrely (bugzilla.redhat.com/bu...) is supplied by e2fsprogs on some Linux distributions. Change these two definitions if com_err is installed somewhere else in your distribution.