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From: donw@rwing.UUCP (Don Wennick)
Newsgroups: comp.os.minix
Subject: Re: bug in rm -r
Summary: Same thing here, except with rmdir ../dir
Message-ID: <692@rwing.UUCP>
Date: 10 May 89 18:31:54 GMT
References: <1152@psueea.UUCP>
Organization: Very Little Organization, Seattle WA
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In article <1152@psueea.UUCP>, kirkenda@jove.cs.pdx.edu (Steve Kirkendall)
writes:

> A funny thing just happened to me while running Minix-ST...

Mine was in Minix-PC 1.4

> 	$ rm -r ../hostmgr

I did something like:

	$ rmdir ../dir

and it wiped my current directory's . and .., which I recovered from in
a similar way. Never did look into it, though.