Hello, On Fri, 20 Jun 2008, Kapil Hari Paranjape wrote: > Apropos "rm -rf /". > > On Fri, 20 Jun 2008, Arun Khan wrote: > > Seriously, has anyone tried it? > > I recall doing this once with user-mode-linux but didn't record the > session. You may want to try it with u-m-l or with qemu. It hurts > less when you play in the sand. :-)
You can try this instructive experiment yourself. Here is the list of commands: 1. aptitude install qemu 2. wget http://bellard.org/qemu/linux-0.2.img.bz2 3. bzcat linux-0.2.img.bz2 > test.img 4. qemu test.img This opens a window with the emulator running in it. In that window you can type rm -rf / The system complains a bit about not being able to remove some directories like /dev/pts, /proc/asound etc. You are returned to the command prompt since the shell is a running process. At this point you need to kill qemu externally. You can use qemu-img to then examine what files are left in test.img Regards, Kapil. -- _______________________________________________ To unsubscribe, email [EMAIL PROTECTED] with "unsubscribe <password> <address>" in the subject or body of the message. http://www.ae.iitm.ac.in/mailman/listinfo/ilugc
