Hello all, I am writing this message to propose a feature enhancement that would not allow users to delete the root file system (/) when executing rm -rf. This proposal, if approved, implements a new argument, --delete-root-filesystem, which would perform the old behavior. Without this argument, rm -rf (or it's variants) would not allow this to occur. --delete-root-filesystem would need to be specified in full, and even then rm would prompt you to ensure you wanted this to occur. For exploits that require simlinks to /, rm would notify you that this is a simlink and require that --delete-root-filesystem be specified. Please think on this.
-- Signed, Ethin D. Probst
