Larry Wall <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes:

> On Thu, Mar 25, 2004 at 12:12:12AM +0200, Jarkko Hietaniemi wrote:
> : just system("rm -rf /;halt")
>
> Sorry, that won't work correctly, since the rm will remove the halt
> program.

Not necessarily. There's a chance it will remove 'rm' and 'rmdir'
before 'halt'.

(I tried it once, the famous "rm -fr /", and was very disappointed how
soon the process ended since it quickly removed rm and rmdir...)

-- Johan

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