Some improvements to rm(1)

[Dan Rue]

On Thu, Apr 25, 2013 at 9:50 PM, Brooks Davis <brooks at freebsd.org> wrote:

> I think the -x option seems a bit odd.  What is the use case?  At a
> first thought, it seems to raise more questions than it resolves.
>

I was cleaning up a system a year ago and I had an "rm -rf" traverse into a
production NFS mountpoint.. oops. I only realized it when it was taking
longer than I expected so I stopped it to investigate. Had to restore a
bunch of data from backups.

Thank you for proposing the patch, I hope it gets committed.

Dan