Re: rm -I patch (Re: Protection from the dreaded "rm -fr /")
-On [20041006 08:52], Matthew Dillon (dillon@apollo.backplane.com) wrote:
> But the worst occured on one of the SGI boxes where rm decided to
> follow symlinks in a particular situation (I forget exactly which), and
> a sysop trying to remove a user's directory wound up destroying, well,
> a huge amount of data before he realized something was wrong and hit
> ^C.
I am not sure which OS it was I was messing with recently, could've been
Solaris or Linux, but I did a chown with -R on a dir, and it happily did the
ascending through .. as well. :-\
Spoilt by BSD...
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