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From: bill@bilver.UUCP (Bill Vermillion)
Newsgroups: comp.unix.misc
Subject: Re: Protection from "rm *"
Message-ID: <1100@bilver.UUCP>
Date: 12 Oct 90 13:50:02 GMT
References: <22360001@hpcvmcdj.cv.hp.com> <AAS.90Oct11100737@boeygen.nr.no> <1990Oct11.184004.9353@nntp-server.caltech.edu>
Reply-To: bill@bilver.UUCP (Bill Vermillion)
Organization: W. J. Vermillion - Winter Park, FL
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In article <1990Oct11.184004.9353@nntp-server.caltech.edu> gwoho@nntp-server.caltech.edu (g liu) writes:
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>a good way to protect people from accidental "rm *" is to type "rm /bin/rm"

Well you can't do that on SysV type systems.  You will get an error message
with "Text file busy".  It won't removed itself, because it is in use,
trying to remove itself ;-)

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