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Re: security (malware) issues in Linux bases OSes



On Monday, 16.02.2009 at 16:37 +0000, Avi Greenbury wrote:

> Ron Johnson wrote:
>>
>> I don't believe it.  Show us!
>>
>
> In the interests of satisfying my curiosity:
>
> vm-linux2:/# rm -rf /
> rm: cannot remove root directory `/'
> vm-linux2:/#

That's rather annoying.  If I want to shoot myself in the foot, it
should let me.  It's a bug that it doesn't :-)

Dave.

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