Re: currently doable? Indirect notation used w/a hash

[Mike Frysinger]

On Tuesday 11 June 2013 03:23:29 Chris Down wrote:
> On 11 Jun 2013 02:19, "Mike Frysinger" <vapier@gentoo.org> wrote:
> > On Monday 10 June 2013 18:20:44 Chris F.A. Johnson wrote:
> > > On Mon, 10 Jun 2013, Linda Walsh wrote:
> > > >>   Point taken, but the only way such a string would be passed as a
> > > >>   variable name is if it was given as user input -- which would,
> > > >>   presumably, be sanitized before being used. Programming it
> > > >>   literally makes as much sense as 'rm -rf /'.
> > > > 
> > > > ---
> > > > 
> > > >     That still didn't POSIX-Gnu rm from disabling that ability.
> > >     
> > >     Did they? I'm not going to test it :(
> > 
> > do it as non-root:
> > $ rm -rf /
> > rm: it is dangerous to operate recursively on `/'
> > rm: use --no-preserve-root to override this failsafe
> > -mike
> 
> If that check didn't exist, rm -rf / would still be dangerous; it would
> just give a lot of errors for the files it couldn't delete, and delete the
> ones it can. Running it as a normal user doesn't make it safer.

sure it does.  you just have to be fast :P.
-mike

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