Protection from the dreaded "rm -fr /"

[Søren Schmidt]

Ceri Davies wrote:
> On Mon, Oct 04, 2004 at 08:27:45PM +1000, Dave Horsfall wrote:
> 
>>On Mon, 4 Oct 2004, Dmitry Karasik wrote:
>>
>>
>>>I just wonder, if 'rm' is so fearful to you, why bother changing rm(1)?
>>>Write a simple wrapper around, as many sysadmins do for their needs, and
>>>use it instead of rm.
>>
>>Precisely.
>>
>>This is -hackers; why do we need to be protected from ourselves?
> 
> 
> All the world is not -hackers.

I have more than enough bikeshedwood now to get past the winter, could 
we stop this now please ?

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-Søren