Dave Ewart wrote the following on 02/16/2009 10:42 AM:
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.
Especially since it will happily process /bin !! At least it used to, and I still have the scars! Did you try /* ?? I don't have a test system to play with, and advancing age has caused me to suppress my curiosity about such things. :) Dennis