Re: firmlink deleting files on boot / interpretation of find -xdev switch

[Kalle Olavi Niemitalo]

"Brent W. Baccala" <cosine@freesoft.org> writes:

> I see that.  It seems to still have that problem.  I created a directory
> /root/baitdir, and put in it a file named 'bait'.  As a non-privileged
> user, I created a firmlink in /tmp to /root/baitdir and rebooted.  Voila!
> 'bait' vanished.

We recently discussed it at <http://bugs.debian.org/836428>.

> A few slight changes to rm itself, and we could use "rm -rfx"
> as a common verb meaning "delete everything and don't go into
> translators".

In my opinion, rm -r should always delete translators (including
ext2fs mount points) like it deletes symlinks.