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Edit: The link.
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, Funny) by Anonymous Coward on Monday April 17 2017, @10:01PM (25 children)
Well, I'm done with SN permanently. I am disgusted that SN posted this gleeful, cackling attack piece and didn't even have the integrity to provide a single link. Goodbye, SN.
(Score: 4, Touché) by Bot on Monday April 17 2017, @10:09PM (7 children)
See you soon AC
Account abandoned.
(Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Monday April 17 2017, @10:20PM (6 children)
I'm Back!!!!!
(Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Monday April 17 2017, @11:09PM (3 children)
Oh good, I was beginning to miss myself.
(Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Monday April 17 2017, @11:24PM (2 children)
Stop replying to yourself!
(Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Tuesday April 18 2017, @12:15AM (1 child)
Why?
(Score: 2) by hemocyanin on Tuesday April 18 2017, @02:23AM
Because you look like a psycho. Put the BT earpiece in as cover.
(Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Tuesday April 18 2017, @08:42AM (1 child)
I'm the original AC. Just letting you know I'm really quitting this site for good.
(Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Tuesday April 18 2017, @09:12AM
I'm the original AC.
No, you're not, and so's my wife! How many ACs does it take to change a lightbulb?
(Score: 4, Funny) by bob_super on Monday April 17 2017, @10:22PM (1 child)
Goodbye, AC.
Your insights will be sorely missed, your jokes repeated with a tear of sadness, and no-one will ever word an informative post into a slam-dunk touche mod quite the way you did...
May your travels, away from this imperfect experiment, be as safe and rewarding as we should all aspire our lives to be.
Go in peace, AC. Your name will not be usurped and your memory tarnished. You have served proudly and valiantly, and your legend will be forever honored with a two pronged-approach of recurrent plugs.
You have always been the most prolific and best of us.
(Score: 3, Funny) by aristarchus on Tuesday April 18 2017, @09:23AM
"'E's not quite dead, yet!"
"I know, but he will be soon. Can you take 'im on the cart?"
"No, I cannot. It' against regulations! I could loose my license!"
"I feel happy, so happy! I think I'll take a walk!"
"Shut up! You're not fooling anyone, you know!"
"Isn't there any thing you could do?"
Thunk.
"Bring out your dead ACs! Bring out your dead ACs!"
"Who's that, then?"
"Must be Lennart Poettering."
"How can you tell?"
"'E's got shit all over him!"
[Apologies to Monty Python's Flying Circus. Or Fliegender Zirkus [youtube.com] ]
(Score: 2) by VanessaE on Monday April 17 2017, @10:40PM
Yeah, AC. Goodbye, and good riddance.. to you.
(Score: 3, Funny) by zafiro17 on Monday April 17 2017, @10:57PM (13 children)
rm -rf AnonymousCoward/
Dad always thought laughter was the best medicine, which I guess is why several of us died of tuberculosis - Jack Handey
(Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Monday April 17 2017, @11:25PM (12 children)
Wow, all you guys getting tribal and 'defending' SN, none of you holding the editors to account for this piss-poor story.
I see now why some people think trump can do no wrong.
(Score: 3, Insightful) by takyon on Monday April 17 2017, @11:37PM (8 children)
A couple people make a minor mistake which is quickly fixed in the comments. Then a non-user decides to quit the site. I'm sure no mockery is justified.
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(Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Tuesday April 18 2017, @01:20AM (3 children)
A couple people make a minor mistake which is quickly fixed in the comments.
You and I have different definitions of "quickly" and "fixed."
That is seeing as how no correction is scored above +2 and yet there are scores of comments about how poettering is the idiot, many of them posted after the correction, modded higher than the correction.
Meanwhile lots of people virtue signaling because an AC triggered them.
(Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Tuesday April 18 2017, @03:32AM
Well I, for one, am shocked that OP is throwing a tantrum like a little bitch instead of following through its loudly proclaimed threats to leave.
I would say to not let the door hit you on the way out (not out of any concern for your well being, mind you, but more of an "avoid spreading AIDs in the common area" courtesy to the other visitors), but we both know that you never had any intention of actually leaving.
(Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Tuesday April 18 2017, @09:39AM
Here, look at my virtue! It's this big! Really! And now that it has been "triggered" by some AC, who keeps saying he is leaving, my virtue is getting even bigger. In fact, stand back! I don't know how big this virtue is going to get! Perhaps if I signaled for some "virtue reduction", if you know what I mean! Heh, heh, heh.
Meanwhile lots of people virtue signaling because an AC triggered them.
(Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Tuesday April 18 2017, @10:05AM
Fellow AC, the question is simple: is the story made up or the link genuine? in the latter case the argument raised by the migrant AC is inconsistent.
(Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Tuesday April 18 2017, @02:46AM (3 children)
A "non-user", someone hiding behind a pseudonym as an Anonymous Coward, unlike our brave "tachyon" !
(Score: 2) by takyon on Tuesday April 18 2017, @03:30AM (2 children)
Be brave like me and sign up for an account.
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(Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Tuesday April 18 2017, @03:33PM (1 child)
Be brave and sign up under your real name, takyon.
Anything else is (shudder!) anonymity. Not that there's anything wrong with that.
(Score: 2) by takyon on Wednesday April 19 2017, @12:29AM
If an account is anonymous, you should sign up for one.
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(Score: 2) by tangomargarine on Tuesday April 18 2017, @05:38AM (2 children)
Literally the first three top-level comments were about the lack of a link. WTF are you talking about
"Is that really true?" "I just spent the last hour telling you to think for yourself! Didn't you hear anything I said?"
(Score: 2) by PiMuNu on Tuesday April 18 2017, @12:11PM
> WTF are you talking about
Its like watching drunk people in a bar. Once they are done fighting about nothing, they will be onto philosophy in no time.
(Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Tuesday April 18 2017, @02:14PM
The lack of a link is just a sign this is a shit story.
The actual content of the story is the real problem.
Its an exaggeration nearly to the point of being a conspiracy theory.
To recap:
(1) Not an rm unix command, its a systemd internal function call
(2) Not censored, comments limited to collaborators
(3) Limit only made after 3 drive-by flame posts that literally added no new technical information, 10 days after last informative post
It's also interesting to note that the story was submitted here just 4 hours after the discussion was limited to collaborators.
Makes me suspicious that the submitter was one of the flamers and is butthurt that his anti-social behavior was rejected.
What are the chances that some random person 'discovers' this horrible case of censorship so quickly?