Newsgroups: comp.os.minix
Path: utzoo!henry
From: henry@utzoo.uucp (Henry Spencer)
Subject: Re: bug in rm -r
Message-ID: <1989May9.174405.727@utzoo.uucp>
Organization: U of Toronto Zoology
References: <1152@psueea.UUCP>
Date: Tue, 9 May 89 17:44:05 GMT

In article <1152@psueea.UUCP> kirkenda@jove.cs.pdx.edu (Steve Kirkendall) writes:
>	$ rm -r ../hostmgr
>
>AND IT TRIED TO DELETE MY CURRENT DIRECTORY!  ...
>(No, I have not tried to reproduce this bug, either, so I may have miss-guessed
>the prime mover of this bug.)

One obvious potential trouble spot is accidentally typing a space between
the ".." and the rest...
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