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Bug: rm -rf /*/*

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From: Robert Swinford <robert.swinford <at> gmail.com>
To: 52206 <at> debbugs.gnu.org
Subject: bug#52206: Bug: rm -rf /*/*
Date: Tue, 30 Nov 2021 14:08:35 -0600

BTW, zsh globbing doesn’t exhibit this behavior!  It seems it is only a problem in bash.

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> On Nov 30, 2021, at 1:58 PM, Robert Swinford <robert.swinford <at> gmail.com> wrote:
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> TWIMC:
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> This seems like a bug: https://twitter.com/nixcraft/status/1465599844299411458
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> I was able to replicate the behavior in a container with coreutils version 8.30.
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> Interestingly, however, rm -rf // only does the following:
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> "root <at> test:~# rm -rf //
> rm: it is dangerous to operate recursively on '//' (same as '/')
> rm: use --no-preserve-root to override this failsafe"
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> I believe illumos has already solved this problem in a POSIX compliant fashion, see: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=l6XQUciI-Sc&t=4903s
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> Appreciate your attention to this bug!
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