X-Recipient: archive-cygwin@delorie.com X-SWARE-Spam-Status: No, hits=-2.0 required=5.0 tests=AWL,BAYES_00,SPF_HELO_PASS,T_RP_MATCHES_RCVD X-Spam-Check-By: sourceware.org To: cygwin@cygwin.com From: Thorsten Kampe Subject: Re: EXTERNAL: Virus that deletes everything under c:/cygwin? Date: Wed, 30 Mar 2011 10:27:43 +0200 Lines: 16 Message-ID: References: <4D90B414.4040605@lmco.com> <468547.38757.qm@web52801.mail.re2.yahoo.com> <4D91E2A5.80806@gmail.com> <20110329153533.GA17260@ednor.casa.cgf.cx> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="us-ascii" Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit User-Agent: MicroPlanet-Gravity/3.0.4 X-IsSubscribed: yes Mailing-List: contact cygwin-help@cygwin.com; run by ezmlm List-Id: List-Subscribe: List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: , Sender: cygwin-owner@cygwin.com Mail-Followup-To: cygwin@cygwin.com Delivered-To: mailing list cygwin@cygwin.com * Christopher Faylor (Tue, 29 Mar 2011 11:35:33 -0400) > On Tue, Mar 29, 2011 at 05:33:05PM +0200, Thorsten Kampe wrote: > >* Dave Korn (Tue, 29 Mar 2011 14:46:13 +0100) > >> On 29/03/2011 10:12, Thorsten Kampe wrote: > >> As for "rm", it already does kind-of have safeguards against this, and > >> that's what the -f option is for - it turns them off. > > > >As far as I know "-f" is already the default... > > If you're saying that "-f" is always active when you type "rm" then, no > that is not true. I'm saying that "ignore nonexistent files, never prompt" is the default behaviour if you're running plain unaliased /usr/bin/rm.exe. Thorsten -- Problem reports: http://cygwin.com/problems.html FAQ: http://cygwin.com/faq/ Documentation: http://cygwin.com/docs.html Unsubscribe info: http://cygwin.com/ml/#unsubscribe-simple