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Re: [ANNOUNCEMENT] Updated: vim-7.0.122-1


On Thu, Oct 12, 2006 at 05:16:03PM +0200, Corinna Vinschen wrote:
>On Oct 12 16:01, Dave Korn wrote:
>>On 12 October 2006 15:52, Corinna Vinschen wrote:
>>>Naah, scratch that.  Creating a mount point for $SYSTEMROOT seems the
>>>better solution.
>>
>>Imagine the fun if someone decided to try and uninstall cygwin by
>>running "rm -rf /" :)
>
>The user is either a non-privileged user, or (s)he will gain some
>interesting new experience in what happens on Linux in the same
>situation.

I wouldn't be against the concept of augmenting Cygwin to allow a
read-only mount.  If the systemroot was mounted read-only then
"rm -rf /" wouldn't work unless the user tried hard to work around
it.

As a meta-issue, I really think that people are getting a little too
quick on the TITTTL trigger.  There's nothing talkish about speculating
end-user issues.

cgf


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