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From: Trevor Woerner <twoerner@gmail.com>
To: Paul Eggleton <paul.eggleton@linux.intel.com>,
	 bitbake-devel@lists.openembedded.org
Subject: Re: [PATCH 1/1] lib/bb/utils: add safeguard against recursively deleting things we shouldn't
Date: Mon, 20 Apr 2015 09:46:19 -0400	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <5535032B.4000007@gmail.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <54b162c649388c63015cdd0d69866d5604303b60.1429280244.git.paul.eggleton@linux.intel.com>

On 15-04-17 10:26 AM, Paul Eggleton wrote:
> Add some very basic safeguard against recursively deleting paths such
> as / and /home in the event of bugs or user mistakes.
>

I liked Nicolas Dechesne's idea of only allowing deletion in paths that 
include TMPDIR or TOPDIR. Is there any reason bitbake would need to 
delete (potentially dangerous) paths anywhere else?

With a list-based approach the list will keep growing indefinitely. 
Inevitably an ex-Solaris person will come along (for example) and have 
their /home directories in /export/home and need a patch for that, etc, 
etc...


  reply	other threads:[~2015-04-20 13:46 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 5+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2015-04-17 14:26 [PATCH 0/1] Add deletion safeguard Paul Eggleton
2015-04-17 14:26 ` [PATCH 1/1] lib/bb/utils: add safeguard against recursively deleting things we shouldn't Paul Eggleton
2015-04-20 13:46   ` Trevor Woerner [this message]
2015-04-20 13:59     ` Paul Eggleton
2015-04-20 22:04       ` Richard Purdie

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