Subject: bug#15926: RFE: unlink command already uses 'unlink' call; make 'rm' use 'remove' call

From: Bernhard Voelker <[email-masked]>
Date: Fri, 22 Nov 2013 16:36:39 +0100

On 11/22/2013 04:14 PM, Eric Blake wrote:
> Just noticing this context...
>
>>
>>   # This test is too dangerous -- if there's a bug you're wiped out!
>>   # rm -fr / 2>/dev/null && fail=1
>
> What if we use chroot to create a safer /, where failing the test would
> only wipe out the chroot?

That's not that easy.
Alternatively, that test could be secured by "skip_if_root_"
plus intercepting the unlinkat() call via LD_PRELOAD.

Have a nice day,
Berny