http://selinux.coker.com.au/play.html There are a variety of ways of giving the same result that rm doesn't reject. "/*" Wasn't caught last time I checked. See the above URL if you want to test out various rm operations as root. ;) On 10 August 2016 9:24:23 AM AEST, Christian Kujau <lists@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote: >On Mon, 8 Aug 2016, Ivan Sizov wrote: >> I'd ran "rm -rf //" by mistake two days ago. I'd stopped it after >five > >Out of curiosity, what version of coreutils is this? The >--preserve-root >option is the default for quite some time now: > >> Don't include dirname.h, since system.h does it now. >> (usage, main): --preserve-root is now the default. >> 2006-09-03 02:53:58 +0000 >http://git.savannah.gnu.org/cgit/coreutils.git/commit/src/rm.c?id=89ffaa19909d31dffbcf12fb4498afb72666f6c9 > >Even coreutils-6.10 from Debian/5 refuses to remove "/": > >$ sudo rm -rf / >rm: cannot remove root directory `/' > >Christian. -- Sent from my Nexus 6P with K-9 Mail. -- To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-btrfs" in the body of a message to majordomo@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html
