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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------------10A17715E3C37CADC Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit 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... :) ------------10A17715E3C37CADC Content-Type: application/pgp-signature -----BEGIN PGP MESSAGE----- Version: GnuPG v1.2.4 (MingW32) iD8DBQFBXr/OsF6jCi4glqMRAlX4AJ47zKAfHavaUWrcMeBHemX3VV5ZjgCfYC/S aX3HDqLusRv85EICbzTfyeg= =37Pi -----END PGP MESSAGE----- ------------10A17715E3C37CADC--
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