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