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There were lots of good titles for this submission, as in "Breaking news: Poettering clueless?" to finally disprove Betteridge's law, or "systemd surprisingly not as good as advertised" or "Breaking new: systemd broken" or "Poettering censors critics after epic fail".
Systemd implementation of "rm -rf .*" will follow ".." to upper directory and erase /
How to reproduce:
# mkdir -p /foo/dir{1,2}
# touch /foo/.bar{1,2}
# cat /etc/tmpfiles.d/test.conf
R! /foo/.* - - - - -
Reboot.
After the issue was fixed, finally Poettering added this gem of wisdom:
I am not sure I'd consider this much of a problem. Yeah, it's a UNIX pitfall, but "rm -rf /foo/.*" will work the exact same way, no?
The answer to this question, as many clarified for him, obviously is a loud "NO!". After being told a couple of times in no uncertain terms, the thread was closed for non-developers
poettering locked and limited conversation to collaborators 4 hours ago
for which I proposed the "freedom-of-speech" department (although I admit it is a weak proposal).
(Score: 4, Informative) by Azuma Hazuki on Monday April 17 2017, @09:30PM (2 children)
That...made me scream like that one character in Metalocalypse when the clown gets really close to him and tries to put his hand down his pants. You know, the kind of scream that starts low and quiet and builds up? That kind. Ye gods.
I am "that girl" your mother warned you about...
(Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Wednesday April 19 2017, @03:43AM (1 child)
"How am I? I woke up... with a clown's hand... in my pants... that's what I did today"
-- William Murderface Murderface Murderface
(Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Wednesday April 19 2017, @03:51AM
Also, just so we're all clear... (Same AC)
https://youtu.be/hljtrBwZvBg [youtu.be]