[arch-general] makepkg running as root

Roman Kyrylych roman.kyrylych at gmail.com
Tue Jan 22 06:02:45 EST 2008


2008/1/22, Colin Pitrat <colin.pitrat at amadeus.com>:
>
> > You guys DO know that 'rm -rf /' is a harmless command that simply exits
>  > with an error message? You should use 'rm -rf /*' to kill someone's
> system.
>
> You say that hoping that some of us will try 'rm -rf /' ?
>
> By the way, I fear 'rm -rf ~' as standard user as much as I fear 'rm -rf /'
> as root (call me believer, I'm pretty sure it works on some systems).

AFAIR rm -rf works only on a system with pre-6.x coreutils (and
without a backport).

-- 
Roman Kyrylych (Роман Кирилич)


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