From: Doug McNaught <doug@mcnaught.org>
To: Roman Zippel <zippel@linux-m68k.org>
Cc: Ozan Eren Bilgen <oebilgen@uekae.tubitak.gov.tr>,
linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org
Subject: Re: True story: "gconfig" removed root folder...
Date: Thu, 15 Jan 2004 10:20:46 -0500 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <87ptdl2q7l.fsf@asmodeus.mcnaught.org> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <Pine.LNX.4.58.0401151558590.27223@serv> (Roman Zippel's message of "Thu, 15 Jan 2004 16:05:59 +0100 (CET)")
Roman Zippel <zippel@linux-m68k.org> writes:
> On Thu, 15 Jan 2004, Ozan Eren Bilgen wrote:
>
>> Today I downloaded 2.6.1 kernel and tried to configure it with "make
>> gconfig". After all changes I selected "Save As" and clicked "/root"
>> folder to save in. Then I clicked "OK", without giving a file name. I
>> expected that it opens root folder and lists contents. But this magic
>> configurator removed (rm -Rf) my root folder and created a file named
>> "root". It was a terrible experience!..
>
> I only did a quick check with menuconfig. Are you sure it's really
> removed? It should still be there as "/root.old".
> I probably should change the behaviour of the save routine to behave
> differently for directories as argument, but it doesn't remove it.
> (Changing gconfig to only accept files in the save request would probably
> be nice too...)
The real lesson here is "don't compile your kernel as root". There's
no need to do so.
-Doug
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2004-01-15 15:21 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 34+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2004-01-15 14:36 True story: "gconfig" removed root folder Ozan Eren Bilgen
2004-01-15 15:05 ` Roman Zippel
2004-01-15 15:20 ` Doug McNaught [this message]
2004-01-15 15:37 ` Erik Hensema
2004-01-15 16:07 ` Tim Cambrant
2004-01-15 16:17 ` Valdis.Kletnieks
2004-01-15 18:31 ` Tim Cambrant
2004-01-15 18:49 ` Valdis.Kletnieks
2004-01-15 19:00 ` Richard B. Johnson
2004-01-15 19:30 ` Valdis.Kletnieks
2004-01-15 19:48 ` Erik Hensema
2004-01-17 16:47 ` Alban Browaeys
2004-01-16 17:20 ` Max Valdez
2004-01-15 21:23 ` Romain Lievin
2004-01-15 21:46 ` Roman Zippel
2004-01-15 22:00 ` Andreas Tolfsen
2004-01-15 22:56 ` Roman Zippel
2004-01-16 6:39 ` Andreas Tolfsen
2004-01-16 7:43 ` Romain Lievin
2004-01-16 21:18 ` Doug McNaught
2004-01-16 21:44 ` Roman Zippel
2004-01-18 12:59 ` Romain Lievin
2004-01-15 15:40 ` viro
2004-01-15 16:01 ` Jan-Benedict Glaw
2004-01-15 21:05 ` Romain Lievin
2004-01-15 21:44 ` [PATCH] " Romain Lievin
2004-01-16 20:17 ` [PATCH] Bug in patch of Romain: " oebilgen
2004-01-16 20:32 ` [PATCH] Bug in patch of Romain: "gconfig" remo ved r=?iso-8859-9?Q?Romain: "gconfig" removed=A0root=A0folder..._?= (part 2) oebilgen
2004-01-16 21:56 ` [PATCH] "gconfig" removed root folder Roman Zippel
[not found] ` <20040116161440.GC30349@louise.pinerecords.com>
2004-01-17 21:47 ` Romain Lievin
2004-01-18 7:24 ` Tomas Szepe
2004-01-18 14:21 ` True story: " Romain Lievin
2004-01-18 14:32 ` Muli Ben-Yehuda
2004-01-21 19:54 ` [PATCH] " Romain Lievin
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