From: Jani Nikula <jani.nikula@intel.com>
To: David Weinehall <david.weinehall@linux.intel.com>
Cc: intel-gfx@lists.freedesktop.org
Subject: Re: [PATCH 5/8] dim: avoid errors with rm $foo/ expanding to /
Date: Wed, 22 Mar 2017 16:03:28 +0200 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <87fui58l3j.fsf@intel.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20170322135142.ymfnnzu4z3yhso37@boom>
On Wed, 22 Mar 2017, David Weinehall <david.weinehall@linux.intel.com> wrote:
> On Wed, Mar 22, 2017 at 12:53:24PM +0200, Jani Nikula wrote:
>> On Wed, 22 Mar 2017, David Weinehall <david.weinehall@linux.intel.com> wrote:
>> > rm -rf / woes can be remedied by always passing "--preserve-root" to rm
>> > (I believe that this is the default already though).
>>
>> That doesn't help with 'rm -rf /*' though.
>
> Hmmm, but how would you end up with that if it does /$foo and $foo="" or
> unset?
There's a 'rm -rf $foo/*'
--
Jani Nikula, Intel Open Source Technology Center
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Thread overview: 18+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2017-03-21 10:14 [PATCH 0/8] dim: shellcheck v0.4.4 fixes Jani Nikula
2017-03-21 10:14 ` [PATCH 1/8] dim: declare and assign separately Jani Nikula
2017-03-21 10:14 ` [PATCH 2/8] dim: use [ p ] || [ q ] instead of test -a/-o Jani Nikula
2017-03-21 10:14 ` [PATCH 3/8] dim: use read -r option Jani Nikula
2017-03-21 10:14 ` [PATCH 4/8] dim: silence shellcheck warning about sourced files Jani Nikula
2017-03-21 10:14 ` [PATCH 5/8] dim: avoid errors with rm $foo/ expanding to / Jani Nikula
2017-03-21 10:40 ` Daniel Vetter
2017-03-21 11:15 ` Jani Nikula
2017-03-21 12:50 ` Daniel Vetter
2017-03-22 10:41 ` David Weinehall
2017-03-22 10:53 ` Jani Nikula
2017-03-22 13:51 ` David Weinehall
2017-03-22 14:03 ` Jani Nikula [this message]
2017-03-21 10:14 ` [PATCH 6/8] dim: pipe dim_cite output directly instead of using echo Jani Nikula
2017-03-21 10:14 ` [PATCH 7/8] dim: use grep -c instead of grep|wc Jani Nikula
2017-03-21 10:41 ` Daniel Vetter
2017-03-21 11:12 ` [PATCH v2] dim: use grep -q " Jani Nikula
2017-03-21 10:14 ` [PATCH 8/8] dim: abstract -i interactive pause to a function Jani Nikula
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