GNU bug report logs - #28461
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Package: coreutils;

Reported by: Eric Mariaud <eric.mariaud <at> gmail.com>

Date: Thu, 14 Sep 2017 17:46:02 UTC

Severity: normal

Done: Assaf Gordon <assafgordon <at> gmail.com>

Bug is archived. No further changes may be made.

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From: Bernhard Voelker <mail <at> bernhard-voelker.de>
To: R0b0t1 <r030t1 <at> gmail.com>
Cc: 28461 <at> debbugs.gnu.org, assafgordon <at> gmail.com, eric.mariaud <at> gmail.com
Subject: bug#28461: erreurs
Date: Sat, 16 Sep 2017 09:27:00 +0200
On 09/16/2017 06:23 AM, R0b0t1 wrote:
> For consistency's sake, I feel like I need to point out that I
> suggested a similar change to "rm" (check to make sure $HOME was not a
> target) and one of the arguments against such a check was that the
> file operations necessary to do so would take too much time.

It seems quite likely that the user forgot to quote the
multiplier "*" argument. And expr is terminating anyway,
so the extra check would just be executed once.

Have a nice day,
Berny




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