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On 11.04.19 17:28, Vincent Whitchurch wrote:

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>> hmm, wo (which programs) do you need, that really need them ?> > I think it was systemd's debug-shell which complained about the ioctls.
Okay, why not fixing this broken userland ?

systemd is written by somebody who doesn't even know the semantics of
rm  -R (as specified by unix standard since many decades) and so causing
funny things like complete disk wipe:

   https://github.com/systemd/systemd/issues/5644


In the last 25 years, I've always been fine w/ just redirecting to
/dev/null.


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