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bug#15926: RFE: unlink command already uses 'unlink' call; make 'rm' use
From: |
Bob Proulx |
Subject: |
bug#15926: RFE: unlink command already uses 'unlink' call; make 'rm' use 'remove' call |
Date: |
Fri, 29 Nov 2013 12:57:32 -0700 |
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Mutt/1.5.21 (2010-09-15) |
Eric Blake wrote:
> Bernhard Voelker wrote:
> > Bob Proulx wrote:
> > +# Exercise "rm -rf /" without the --preserve-root and --no-preserve-root
> > option.
> > +# Expect a non-Zero exist status.
> > +exercise_rm_rf_root \
> > + && fail=1
>
> Maybe you should favor 'rm -r /' rather than 'rm -rf /'. That way, even
> if all the failsafes are bypassed, you at least have better logging of
> what started to go wrong rather than silence.
I still think this is a very scary test and isn't worth the return on
investment. It is the kind of thing that makes me think I could never
recommend building coreutils anywhere but in a throwaway chroot.
Because the risk of a failure is just so very extremely high. That
would be a shame.
Bob
- bug#15926: RFE: unlink command already uses 'unlink' call; make 'rm' use 'remove' call, (continued)
- bug#15926: RFE: unlink command already uses 'unlink' call; make 'rm' use 'remove' call, Pádraig Brady, 2013/11/23
- bug#15926: RFE: unlink command already uses 'unlink' call; make 'rm' use 'remove' call, Bernhard Voelker, 2013/11/24
- bug#15926: RFE: unlink command already uses 'unlink' call; make 'rm' use 'remove' call, Pádraig Brady, 2013/11/24
- bug#15926: RFE: unlink command already uses 'unlink' call; make 'rm' use 'remove' call, Bernhard Voelker, 2013/11/25
- bug#15926: RFE: unlink command already uses 'unlink' call; make 'rm' use 'remove' call, Bernhard Voelker, 2013/11/26
- bug#15926: RFE: unlink command already uses 'unlink' call; make 'rm' use 'remove' call, Pádraig Brady, 2013/11/26
- bug#15926: RFE: unlink command already uses 'unlink' call; make 'rm' use 'remove' call, Bernhard Voelker, 2013/11/27
- bug#15926: RFE: unlink command already uses 'unlink' call; make 'rm' use 'remove' call, Pádraig Brady, 2013/11/28
- bug#15926: RFE: unlink command already uses 'unlink' call; make 'rm' use 'remove' call, Bernhard Voelker, 2013/11/29
- bug#15926: RFE: unlink command already uses 'unlink' call; make 'rm' use 'remove' call, Eric Blake, 2013/11/22
- bug#15926: RFE: unlink command already uses 'unlink' call; make 'rm' use 'remove' call,
Bob Proulx <=
- bug#15926: RFE: unlink command already uses 'unlink' call; make 'rm' use 'remove' call, Pádraig Brady, 2013/11/29
- bug#15926: RFE: unlink command already uses 'unlink' call; make 'rm' use 'remove' call, Eric Blake, 2013/11/30
- bug#15926: RFE: unlink command already uses 'unlink' call; make 'rm' use 'remove' call, Bob Proulx, 2013/11/30
- bug#15926: RFE: unlink command already uses 'unlink' call; make 'rm' use 'remove' call, Bernhard Voelker, 2013/11/30
- bug#15926: RFE: unlink command already uses 'unlink' call; make 'rm' use 'remove' call, Pádraig Brady, 2013/11/22
- bug#15926: RFE: unlink command already uses 'unlink' call; make 'rm' use 'remove' call, Jim Meyering, 2013/11/22
- bug#15926: RFE: unlink command already uses 'unlink' call; make 'rm' use 'remove' call, Bernhard Voelker, 2013/11/22
bug#15926: RFE: unlink command already uses 'unlink' call; make 'rm' use 'remove' call, Eric Blake, 2013/11/21