Dave Ewart wrote the following on 02/16/2009 10:42 AM:
On Monday, 16.02.2009 at 16:37 +0000, Avi Greenbury wrote:
Ron Johnson wrote:
I don't believe it. Show us!
In the interests of satisfying my curiosity:
vm-linux2:/# rm -rf /
rm: cannot remove root directory `/'
vm-linux2:/#
That's rather annoying. If I want to shoot myself in the foot, it
should let me. It's a bug that it doesn't :-)
Dave.
Especially since it will happily process /bin !! At least it
used to, and I still have the scars!
Did you try /* ??
I don't have a test system to play with, and advancing age
has caused me to suppress my curiosity about such things. :)
Dennis
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