Re: [glob -tails] broken in respect to tilde-filenames!

From: Andreas Leitgeb (avl_at_gamma.logic.tuwien.ac.at)
Date: 03/08/04 

Date: 08 Mar 2004 11:29:43 GMT

Zoran Vasiljevic <zoran@archiware.com> wrote:
> For some posters on this list, this all might be of academic
> importance. But for us, we lost quite a lot of money and image
> by trapping into this and deleting some home-directories on
> customer machine. I hope you can imagine what that means.

As a sidenote:
At least in a private context I know your feelings:
  I once lost my homedirectory, because I ran the tcl test-suite
in my home-setup, where my user had id 0 (root-privileges) but wasn't
named "root". Some test-case tried to move the user's homedirectory
except for root, and in any case then cleaned up the target. In other
words: not recognizing me as "root" it happily moved my homedir to
some temp-directory, then noticed, that unexpectedly it did not fail,
and then removed that target-tempdirectory (now with all my stuff in
it) with -force.

Since that, I no longer have an id=0-account named other than "root".
Actually I also never ran the test-suite since then...

PS: I think that one test-case has been removed or made harmless since
that, but I still fear similar tests, and the testsuite has grown too
large to check every single test-case for possible similar dangers.

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