Hi, On Tue, Sep 25, 2007 at 11:25:34AM -0400, Maxim Khitrov wrote: > On 9/25/07, Oliver Fromme <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > To add further confusion, another "rm -rf ../" does > > not print an error message and seemingly succeeds, > > even though ".." does not exist anymore in the current > > directory (which has been removed). > > Confirmed on CURRENT as well. Note that if you run rf -rf .. as the > first command, the command does fail with 'rm: "." and ".." may not be > removed'. Adding a / at the end does seem to get around this check.
May I add some more confusion? In tcsh: (23:49) [EMAIL PROTECTED]:ttyp2 [~] which rm /bin/rm (23:49) [EMAIL PROTECTED]:ttyp2 [~] cd /tmp (23:49) [EMAIL PROTECTED]:ttyp2 [/tmp] mkdir -p foo/bar (23:49) [EMAIL PROTECTED]:ttyp2 [/tmp] cd foo/bar (23:49) [EMAIL PROTECTED]:ttyp2 [foo/bar] rm -rf ../ (23:49) [EMAIL PROTECTED]:ttyp2 [foo/bar] pwd pwd: .: No such file or directory (23:52) [EMAIL PROTECTED]:ttyp2 [foo/bar] cd /tmp (23:52) [EMAIL PROTECTED]:ttyp2 [/tmp] ls (23:52) [EMAIL PROTECTED]:ttyp2 [/tmp] In sh: $ which rm /bin/rm $ cd /tmp $ mkdir -p foo/bar $ cd foo/bar $ rm -rf ../ rm: ../: Invalid argument $ pwd /tmp/foo/bar $ rm -rf ../ $ pwd /tmp/foo/bar $ cd /tmp $ ls foo $ cd foo $ ls (23:53) [EMAIL PROTECTED]:ttyp2 [~] uname -a FreeBSD nowhere.ob-home.lan 6.2-STABLE FreeBSD 6.2-STABLE #17: Sun Aug 5 19:03:13 CEST 2007 [EMAIL PROTECTED]:/usr/obj/usr/src/sys/NOWHERE i386 - Olli -- | Oliver Brandmueller | Offenbacher Str. 1 | Germany D-14197 Berlin | | Fon +49-172-3130856 | Fax +49-172-3145027 | WWW: http://the.addict.de/ | | Ich bin das Internet. Sowahr ich Gott helfe. | | Eine gewerbliche Nutzung aller enthaltenen Adressen ist nicht gestattet! |
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