From: Erik Hensema <erik@hensema.net>
Subject: Re: True story: "gconfig" removed root folder...
Date: Thu, 15 Jan 2004 15:37:09 +0000 (UTC)
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Doug McNaught (doug@mcnaught.org) wrote:
> Roman Zippel <zippel@linux-m68k.org> writes:
> 
>> On Thu, 15 Jan 2004, Ozan Eren Bilgen wrote:
>>
>>> Today I downloaded 2.6.1 kernel and tried to configure it with "make
>>> gconfig". After all changes I selected "Save As" and clicked "/root"
>>> folder to save in. Then I clicked "OK", without giving a file name. I
>>> expected that it opens root folder and lists contents. But this magic
>>> configurator removed (rm -Rf) my root folder and created a file named
>>> "root". It was a terrible experience!..
>>
>> I only did a quick check with menuconfig. Are you sure it's really
>> removed? It should still be there as "/root.old".
>> I probably should change the behaviour of the save routine to behave
>> differently for directories as argument, but it doesn't remove it.
>> (Changing gconfig to only accept files in the save request would probably
>> be nice too...)
> 
> The real lesson here is "don't compile your kernel as root".  There's
> no need to do so.

Yes, having your user homedirectory removed is *much* better :-)

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Erik Hensema <erik@hensema.net>
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