Re: [MiNT] bug/virus???

["Konrad M. Kokoszkiewicz" <draco@obta.uw.edu.pl>]

HI,

> > 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)?

The mask .* matches ..

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