On 05/09/2014 05:15 PM, Jessica Litwin wrote: > Hi, > > 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.
Note rm doesn't see the '*' So you're asking that we disallow: `rm -rf /bin /boot /tmp /usr /var /dev /etc /sys ...` Note practical I'm afraid. Also that extra '*' character is much less likely to be typed in error. thanks, Pádraig. -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-bugs-dist-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact listmas...@lists.debian.org
