Re: disk-destroyer.c

Russell King (rmk@arm.linux.org.uk)
Sat, 22 Jul 2000 12:19:27 +0100 (BST)


Martin Mares writes:
> I think that a better analogue for the check proposed by Andre is "implement
> sys_rm_rf, but make it check whether the path we are passing to it is not
> /, /bin or /sbin". :-)

I've been looking at the ATA specs recently, and I'm going to do a FAQ-type
thing on this which (hopefully) will put everything in balance. At the
moment, it appears that there is a lot of hype on both sides of the argument
which is not helping us to come to a satisfactory solution.
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