25 Apr
2017
25 Apr
'17
1:23 a.m.
On Tue, Apr 25, 2017 at 12:18:41AM +0200, Josh Good wrote:
On 2017 Apr 24, 18:06, Noel Chiappa wrote:
Yeah, but does "rm" in V6 has a built-in "brake" to not process
"." nor
"..", no matter what ("-f")?
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Josh Good
rm in V6 outsources globbing to /etc/glob, which appears to report
no-match if the first character is .
https://github.com/dspinellis/unix-history-repo/blob/Research-V6-Snapshot-D…
khm
From:
Josh Good
Would the command "cd /tmp ; rm -rf .*"
be able to kill a V6 ... system?
So, assuming one did that, _and_ (important caveat!) _performed that command
as root_, it probably would empty out the entire directory tree. (I checked,
and "cd /tmp ; echo .*" evaluates to ". .." on V6.