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Date:      Sat, 2 Oct 2004 16:48:46 +0200
From:      Dimitry Andric <dimitry@andric.com>
To:        Giorgos Keramidas <keramida@FreeBSD.org>
Cc:        freebsd-hackers@FreeBSD.org
Subject:   Re: Protection from the dreaded "rm -fr /"
Message-ID:  <1221615358.20041002164846@andric.com>
In-Reply-To: <20041002081928.GA21439@gothmog.gr>
References:  <20041002081928.GA21439@gothmog.gr>

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On 2004-10-02 at 10:19:28 Giorgos Keramidas wrote:

> His idea was remarkably simple, so I went ahead and wrote this patch for
> rm(1) of FreeBSD:

Of course, your work is commendable, but isn't is much simpler to just
not type commands like that?  I mean, "rm -rf /etc" or "rm -rf /bin"
are just as bad, but do you really want to be checking for all
possible `bad' deletions?  That way, we'll start to look like some
software from Redmond... :)

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