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

From: Bob Proulx <[email-masked]>
Date: Fri, 29 Nov 2013 12:57:32 -0700

Eric Blake wrote:
> Bernhard Voelker wrote:
> > 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.

I still think this is a very scary test and isn't worth the return on
investment.  It is the kind of thing that makes me think I could never
recommend building coreutils anywhere but in a throwaway chroot.
Because the risk of a failure is just so very extremely high.  That
would be a shame.

Bob