From: Warren Young <warren@etr-usa.com>
To: The Cygwin-Talk Maiming List <cygwin-talk@cygwin.com>
Subject: Re: PATCH: rm MessageBox() (was: Virus that deletes everything under c:/cygwin?)
Date: Mon, 28 Mar 2011 21:37:00 -0000 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <4D90FF7F.9010500@etr-usa.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <468547.38757.qm@web52801.mail.re2.yahoo.com>
On 3/28/2011 11:07 AM, Dante Allegria wrote:
> --- On Mon, 3/28/11, Damon Register<damon.w.register@lmco.com> wrote:
>
> 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? :)
I'd like to propose a patch adding a series of MessageBox()es to
Cygwin's unlink(2) syscall to make it ask "Are you sure?" then "Are you
really sure?" then "Are you really really double-dog sure?" every time
you try to remove a file.
Additionally, I propose adding a patch to rm(1) so that if you give -r,
it will activate UAC on Vista/7 systems before doing any work, because
everyone loves it when the screen dims and you get yet another dialog
you must okay before the system will do anything else.
I will start this work on April 1, if there are no objections.
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2011-03-28 21:37 ` Warren Young [this message]
2011-03-28 22:30 ` Christopher Faylor
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