Re: backwards recursive chowning

[Bob Proulx]

Bob Proulx wrote:
> Evan McNabb wrote:
> > I know rm doesn't do this any more, and that has saved many people's
> > systems.
> 
> Huh?  There isn't any special code in there.  But I did see a very
> huge long debate in the standards list about whether it should
> specifically allow a system to implement such a check.  It would be
> very difficult to do that in practice however.

I stand corrected.  Jim just clued me in that rm does currently refuse
to remove "." or "..", as special cases.  With other improvements
coming in the future.  I have not been keeping up!  Sorry about that.

Bob

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