From: David Cantrell Date: 23:45 on 15 Jan 2007 Subject: GNU rm Galloping gay christ, how on earth can you fuck up something as simple as rm!?!?!? # cd some-place-only-root-can-read # sudo -u peon rm /some/file/the/peon/has/permission/to/rm rm: cannot lstat `.': Permission denied I can not even begin to comprehend why anyone thought that rm should be able to read the current working directory.
From: Jarkko Hietaniemi Date: 00:01 on 16 Jan 2007 Subject: Re: GNU rm David Cantrell wrote: > Galloping gay christ, how on earth can you fuck up something as simple > as rm!?!?!? > > # cd some-place-only-root-can-read > # sudo -u peon rm /some/file/the/peon/has/permission/to/rm > rm: cannot lstat `.': Permission denied > > I can not even begin to comprehend why anyone thought that rm should be > able to read the current working directory. Why, probably to read a .gnurmrc in which one can in LISP-like language define the ANSI terminal color codes to show a particular error message in?
From: Rafael Garcia-Suarez Date: 00:04 on 16 Jan 2007 Subject: Re: GNU rm On 16/01/07, Jarkko Hietaniemi <jhi@xxx.xx> wrote: > Why, probably to read a .gnurmrc in which one can in LISP-like > language define the ANSI terminal color codes to show a particular > error message in? I see that you're beginning to get the touch of it. A bit more, you'll become a fine Linux zealot. Get New Utilities !
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