Hello coreutils maintainers, I noticed a potentially dangerous difference in how rm handles the / and /* patterns.
Currently: $ sudo rm -rf / rm: it is dangerous to operate recursively on '/' rm: use --no-preserve-root to override this failsafe This prevents accidental deletion of the root directory. However: $ sudo rm -rf /* This command will proceed to remove the contents of /, effectively destroying the system, without any warning. While this is technically correct according to shell expansion rules, it may be surprising for some users. People might assume /* is just as protected as /, but the safeguard doesn’t apply. P.S.: I removed root(
