"Brent W. Baccala" <cos...@freesoft.org> writes: > I see that. It seems to still have that problem. I created a directory > /root/baitdir, and put in it a file named 'bait'. As a non-privileged > user, I created a firmlink in /tmp to /root/baitdir and rebooted. Voila! > 'bait' vanished.
We recently discussed it at <http://bugs.debian.org/836428>. > A few slight changes to rm itself, and we could use "rm -rfx" > as a common verb meaning "delete everything and don't go into > translators". In my opinion, rm -r should always delete translators (including ext2fs mount points) like it deletes symlinks.
