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From: gwyn@brl-smoke.ARPA (Doug Gwyn )
Newsgroups: comp.unix.questions
Subject: Re: is it ok to forbid rm -r x/y/..
Message-ID: <5544@brl-smoke.ARPA>
Date: Tue, 20-Jan-87 04:33:03 EST
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Posted: Tue Jan 20 04:33:03 1987
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In article <6427@allegra.UUCP> mp@allegra.UUCP (Mark Plotnick) writes:
>... I'm tempted to make rm forbid removing anything that has ..
>as its last pathname component ...  What am I overlooking?

Perhaps that "rm" should do as it's told?
(Unless of course it can't work, which is probably
the point of the prohibition on . and ..; I think
those too should not be exempted.)