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posted by cmn32480 on Monday April 17 2017, @08:34PM   Printer-friendly
from the people-that-live-in-a-bubble dept.

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).


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  • (Score: 1, Interesting) by Anonymous Coward on Tuesday April 18 2017, @07:10PM

    by Anonymous Coward on Tuesday April 18 2017, @07:10PM (#495972)

    I am still holding out hope that Trump is playing the fool on purpose and is secretly in cahoots with Clinton. What better way to do an end-run around the Republicans? Embody the caricature of bigoted misogyny so perfectly, tank the reputation of the US so hard that Republicans never recover? Make even die hard Republicans question their party's goals for fucking ONCE! Also, get all the nutters to out themselves like various users here are doing in a shockingly bold way now. Let their inner devils feel free to express themselves so we can get on with ignoring them all.

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