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Subject: Re: EXTERNAL: Virus that deletes everything under c:/cygwin?
Date: Tue, 29 Mar 2011 11:12:23 +0200
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* Dante Allegria (Mon, 28 Mar 2011 10:07:32 -0700 (PDT))
> No, turns out it was because someone committed this into the nightly
> build scripts:
>    rm -rf $(DOES_NOT_EXIST)/*
> 
> <sigh> Should cygwin's rm have some built-in safeguards for this? :)

Sure, it does. It's called "intelligent scripting" and it includes 
setting "errexit" and "nounset" in bash or Z Shell. If you are scripting 
and not using those above, then you got exactly what you deserved.

Thorsten


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