[Gllug] Is this funny

[Simon Stewart]

On Wed, Jan 02, 2002 at 11:34:59AM +0000, Simon Trimmer wrote:
> On 1 Jan 2002, Nix wrote:
> > This whole house of cards fell completely to pieces when other
> > filesystems started to be supported, because the knowledge of the format
> > of a directory was wired into lots of userspace programs :( many Unixes
> > (such as Linux) even ban read(2)ing from a directory, on the basis that
> > even if write(2)ing to a directory is banned, if you're allowed to
> > read(2) from it someone will find a way to rely on that :(
> 
> It's a bit of a bugger though, I have been in situations (years ago) where
> people have typed a rm -rf * in the wrong place and taken out useful things
> like /bin, so you have a live system that is practically useless. Without ls
> it's nice to be able to cat . :)

"echo *" surely? :)

Cheers,

Simon

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