spike@world.std.com (Joe Ilacqua) (01/20/90)
Will rm -rf / run to completion? In past UN*Xs it wouldn't
(in V6 I am told, rm would fork inself for each subdirectory so the rm
would fail once "rm" was removed). Would it die when "rm" was
removed? When /vmunix, /dev/mem, or the disk devices where remove?
When it hit a mount point?
Well under SUNOS 3.5 it goes all the way. It gets errors at
the mount points (something about out of sync) but does not stop.
When it is done all that was left was the mount points, and a
core that seemed to be from ypbind. How did I check the core? I left
an emacs running, sort of gives you a shell with a lot of builtins.
What do you thing happens if you copy /etc/termcap into
/dev/kmem?
->Spike
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