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

From: Eric Blake <[email-masked]>
Date: Fri, 22 Nov 2013 19:28:51 -0700

On 11/22/2013 06:02 PM, Bernhard Voelker wrote:
> On 11/22/2013 06:39 PM, Bob Proulx wrote:

> +#-------------------------------------------------------------------------------
> +# Exercise "rm -rf /" without the --preserve-root and --no-preserve-root option.
> +# Expect a non-Zero exist status.
> +exercise_rm_rf_root \
> +  && fail=1

Maybe you should favor 'rm -r /' rather than 'rm -rf /'.  That way, even
if all the failsafes are bypassed, you at least have better logging of
what started to go wrong rather than silence.

Also, probably worth testing:

rm -r / a

to make sure that 'a' DOES get deleted, even though we skipped over the
/ argument, and that we still get the final exit status representing
failure to remove /.

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