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Re: PATCH: rm MessageBox() (was: Virus that deletes everything under c:/cygwin?)

From: Warren Young <warren at etr-usa dot com>
To: The Cygwin-Talk Maiming List <cygwin-talk at cygwin dot com>
Date: Mon, 28 Mar 2011 15:37:03 -0600
Subject: Re: PATCH: rm MessageBox() (was: Virus that deletes everything under c:/cygwin?)
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On 3/28/2011 11:07 AM, Dante Allegria wrote:

--- On Mon, 3/28/11, Damon Register<damon.w.register@lmco.com> wrote:
No, turns out it was because someone committed this into the nightly build scripts:
    rm -rf $(DOES_NOT_EXIST)/*
<sigh> Should cygwin's rm have some built-in safeguards for this? :)

I'd like to propose a patch adding a series of MessageBox()es to Cygwin's unlink(2) syscall to make it ask "Are you sure?" then "Are you really sure?" then "Are you really really double-dog sure?" every time you try to remove a file.

Additionally, I propose adding a patch to rm(1) so that if you give -r, it will activate UAC on Vista/7 systems before doing any work, because everyone loves it when the screen dims and you get yet another dialog you must okay before the system will do anything else.

I will start this work on April 1, if there are no objections.

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