Protection from the dreaded "rm -fr /"

[Michael Reifenberger]

On Sat, 2 Oct 2004, David Schultz wrote:
...
> Do you also want to be able to swap to the root partition while
> it's mounted?  We can bring back that feature, too.  But
> personally, I don't see anything wrong with the view that
> operations that are guaranteed to shoot people in the foot should
> be disallowed.
>

Every anti foot shooting takes time to check for.
A strncmp for every arg is maybe ok. Traversing the tree for realpath is not.
The job for `rm` is to remove whatever it is given to get removed.
As fast as possible. Nothing else.

Bye/2
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