In message: <2004...@gothmog.gr> Giorgos Keramidas <kera...@freebsd.org> writes: : On 2004-10-02 19:29, "M. Warner Losh" <im...@bsdimp.com> wrote: : > In message: <2004...@seekingfire.com> : > Tillman Hodgson <till...@seekingfire.com> writes: : > : It'll never work, though, that's the thing. At some point it'll rm : > : something it itself needs and error out. There isn't a way to use `rm : > : -rf /` that /doesn't/ result in foot-shooting. : > : > No. You are wrong. if you rm -rf in a chroot, then it won't result : > in foot shooting, necessarily, like it would outside a chroot. : : Since a chroot can always be rm -fr deleted from outside the chroot, : this isn't really a great problem, is it?

You miss the point.

You said it was always a foot-shooting move. I gave you a concrete example of where it wasn't a foot-shooting move (or even when you could use newfs instead). You reply with a workaround (which may be a valid way to deal, maybe not). My point still stands: it isn't always a foot-shooting move.