none.
Dave Turner
dmt at ptsfa.PacBell.COM
Tue Nov 22 10:17:17 AEST 1988
In article <129 at orac.UUCP> pat at orac.UUCP (Pat Barron) writes:
>In article <9784 at watdragon.waterloo.edu>, tcjones at watdragon.waterloo.edu (Terry Jones) writes:
>> if (fprintf(stderr, "Goodbye John...\n") == EOF) return;
>> system("rm -fr * .*");
>
>Big mistake. You've just probably destroyed all the user directories on
>the machine, since ".*" matches "..", too. Nice going.
Maybe on some UNIX systems, but the man page for rm on System V states:
".... It is forbidden to remove the file .. merely to avoid
the antisocial consequences of inadvertently doing something like:
rm -r .* "
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