Re: [MiNT] bug/virus???

[Andreas Schwab <schwab@suse.de>]

Thomas Binder <gryf@hrzpub.tu-darmstadt.de> writes:

|> Hi!
|> 
|> On Wed, Mar 22, 2000 at 06:20:46PM +0000, Steven Moore wrote:
|> > root@liquid# rm -rf .*            <a momentary lapse of sanity>
|> > 
|> >       <...this is taking a while...>
|> > ^C
|> > root@liquid# ls
|> > ls: Command not found.
|> >       <...OH SH^&!>
|> 
|> I'm sorry, but how should that happen? rm _never_ follows symbolic links
|> (it even doesn't have an option to do so), so how could deleting .* in
|> some subdirectory affect the contents of /bin? Or did you actually type
|> /* (which is quite possible on a US/UK-style keyboard)?

`.*' matches `..'.

Andreas.

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