Bob Proulx wrote: > Evan McNabb wrote: > > I know rm doesn't do this any more, and that has saved many people's > > systems. > > Huh? There isn't any special code in there. But I did see a very > huge long debate in the standards list about whether it should > specifically allow a system to implement such a check. It would be > very difficult to do that in practice however.
I stand corrected. Jim just clued me in that rm does currently refuse to remove "." or "..", as special cases. With other improvements coming in the future. I have not been keeping up! Sorry about that. Bob
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