Re: True story: "gconfig" removed root folder...

[Max Valdez]

I rather have my /root dir removed (nothing there), than my user home,
that would be very bad for me

Max

On Thu, 2004-01-15 at 09:20, Doug McNaught wrote:
> Roman Zippel <zippel@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx> writes:
> 
> > On Thu, 15 Jan 2004, Ozan Eren Bilgen wrote:
> >
> >> Today I downloaded 2.6.1 kernel and tried to configure it with "make
> >> gconfig". After all changes I selected "Save As" and clicked "/root"
> >> folder to save in. Then I clicked "OK", without giving a file name. I
> >> expected that it opens root folder and lists contents. But this magic
> >> configurator removed (rm -Rf) my root folder and created a file named
> >> "root". It was a terrible experience!..
> >
> > I only did a quick check with menuconfig. Are you sure it's really
> > removed? It should still be there as "/root.old".
> > I probably should change the behaviour of the save routine to behave
> > differently for directories as argument, but it doesn't remove it.
> > (Changing gconfig to only accept files in the save request would probably
> > be nice too...)
> 
> The real lesson here is "don't compile your kernel as root".  There's
> no need to do so.
> 
> -Doug
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