On Fri, May 09, 2014 at 12:15:25PM -0400, Jessica Litwin wrote:
Can you honestly tell me there is a use case for allowing 'rm -rf /*' to succeed? If we're going to say that it's dangerous to operate on / then it makes sense to trap /* as well. It doesn't make sense that we should allow the root of the filesystem to be destroyed without this protection just on the say-so of an extra character.
Well, this is why I was never a big fan of the --preserve-root option in the first place--once rm decides that it is responsible for heuristically protecting people from themselves, there are any number of new rules that fit under that umbrella. (And this simply isn't a problem that's solvable in the general case.)
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