From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Return-Path: Received: (qmail 108095 invoked by alias); 13 Apr 2017 18:01:23 -0000 Mailing-List: contact cygwin-help@cygwin.com; run by ezmlm Precedence: bulk List-Id: List-Subscribe: List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: , Sender: cygwin-owner@cygwin.com Mail-Followup-To: cygwin@cygwin.com Received: (qmail 108016 invoked by uid 89); 13 Apr 2017 18:01:16 -0000 Authentication-Results: sourceware.org; auth=none X-Virus-Found: No X-Spam-SWARE-Status: No, score=-1.4 required=5.0 tests=AWL,BAYES_00,FREEMAIL_FROM,RCVD_IN_DNSWL_NONE,RCVD_IN_SORBS_SPAM,SPF_PASS autolearn=no version=3.3.2 spammy=1980, disappeared, H*i:sk:58EFB88, H*f:sk:58EFB88 X-HELO: mail-pg0-f54.google.com Received: from mail-pg0-f54.google.com (HELO mail-pg0-f54.google.com) (74.125.83.54) by sourceware.org (qpsmtpd/0.93/v0.84-503-g423c35a) with ESMTP; Thu, 13 Apr 2017 18:01:15 +0000 Received: by mail-pg0-f54.google.com with SMTP id g2so33666680pge.3 for ; Thu, 13 Apr 2017 11:01:17 -0700 (PDT) X-Google-DKIM-Signature: v=1; a=rsa-sha256; c=relaxed/relaxed; d=1e100.net; s=20161025; h=x-gm-message-state:mime-version:sender:in-reply-to:references:from :date:message-id:subject:to; bh=0XhF4VEIUu6sRUImYzjPrh2p10Iy9m2VRLb03KFx5k4=; b=b39KAhXa3T7s/gOC9U9hxCmIZD/0DwwbaozOaCwhhIxFA4S+qgXqeGsbv6luuemHfA CNPs5zDUazBJZbyj910vIY8IqggOPzBqnbmnJYBvSxPZfjwn3A9jRHuTuwq0danAUgKh r/VAvBaFO3w7lh7MuMPx6Hm+LHPC09fYkFtP2YtMS/+6P/wLu3jD/SvNpdd2VuPg4j8Z K8w1qMcIzsUn1uk5hp7SkBQHO4D0khJ2EWu8F3GgYfH8MA4t/IkyBBqEx+NV+WqHIsvL CqsjhrrjXvjEW6X29mqNHK4cZ2see99NsMLelUpp9hNzOijHaHqnLkFtWvgzf1Nf6mZA MxTA== X-Gm-Message-State: AN3rC/7NPl1a8aTVpHvjOUVbHlAK8MNrra03ZeEEircejwkjHFaDzuQB Z6E3LXrZZN2Zvf27cDwI4VYbH8nq/A== X-Received: by 10.98.158.16 with SMTP id s16mr4239266pfd.159.1492106475759; Thu, 13 Apr 2017 11:01:15 -0700 (PDT) MIME-Version: 1.0 Received: by 10.100.179.99 with HTTP; Thu, 13 Apr 2017 11:01:15 -0700 (PDT) In-Reply-To: <58EFB88A.5090807@tlinx.org> References: <58EFB88A.5090807@tlinx.org> From: Dan Kegel Date: Thu, 13 Apr 2017 18:48:00 -0000 Message-ID: Subject: Re: /bin/ gets deleted on error To: cygwin@cygwin.com Content-Type: text/plain; charset=UTF-8 X-IsSubscribed: yes X-SW-Source: 2017-04/txt/msg00161.txt.bz2 >> For the second time this week my /bin/ folder gets obliterated on an >> error during normal usage. It is equivalent of doing the infamous "rm >> -rf /bin" . What were you doing immediately before the directory disappeared? I have only had things like this happen from user error, e.g. scripting mistakes. (The first time I saw somebody rm -rf / was in 1980 :-) ) -- 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