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

[Warren Young]

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.