From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Path: main.gmane.org!not-for-mail From: Richard Stallman Newsgroups: gmane.emacs.devel Subject: [root@mailserver.adm.unipi.it: Dangerous: delete-file deletes current directory as root!!] Date: Fri, 11 Oct 2002 00:41:14 -0400 Sender: emacs-devel-admin@gnu.org Message-ID: Reply-To: rms@gnu.org NNTP-Posting-Host: localhost.gmane.org X-Trace: main.gmane.org 1034341916 10927 127.0.0.1 (11 Oct 2002 13:11:56 GMT) X-Complaints-To: usenet@main.gmane.org NNTP-Posting-Date: Fri, 11 Oct 2002 13:11:56 +0000 (UTC) Return-path: Original-Received: from quimby.gnus.org ([80.91.224.244]) by main.gmane.org with esmtp (Exim 3.35 #1 (Debian)) id 17zza7-0002q7-00 for ; Fri, 11 Oct 2002 15:11:55 +0200 Original-Received: from monty-python.gnu.org ([199.232.76.173]) by quimby.gnus.org with esmtp (Exim 3.12 #1 (Debian)) id 1800P5-0001wl-00 for ; Fri, 11 Oct 2002 16:04:38 +0200 Original-Received: from localhost ([127.0.0.1] helo=monty-python.gnu.org) by monty-python.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.10) id 17zzaJ-0001Ms-00; Fri, 11 Oct 2002 09:12:07 -0400 Original-Received: from list by monty-python.gnu.org with tmda-scanned (Exim 4.10) id 17zza1-0001KD-00 for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Fri, 11 Oct 2002 09:11:49 -0400 Original-Received: from mail by monty-python.gnu.org with spam-scanned (Exim 4.10) id 17zzZz-0001Ju-00 for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Fri, 11 Oct 2002 09:11:48 -0400 Original-Received: from fencepost.gnu.org ([199.232.76.164]) by monty-python.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.10) id 17zylt-0005tO-00 for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Fri, 11 Oct 2002 08:20:01 -0400 Original-Received: from rms by fencepost.gnu.org with local (Exim 4.10) id 17zrbu-00026F-00; Fri, 11 Oct 2002 00:41:14 -0400 Original-To: emacs-devel@gnu.org Errors-To: emacs-devel-admin@gnu.org X-BeenThere: emacs-devel@gnu.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.0.11 Precedence: bulk List-Help: List-Post: List-Subscribe: , List-Id: Emacs development discussions. List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: Xref: main.gmane.org gmane.emacs.devel:8523 X-Report-Spam: http://spam.gmane.org/gmane.emacs.devel:8523 Can someone fix this? ------- Start of forwarded message ------- Envelope-to: rms@gnu.org Delivery-date: Wed, 09 Oct 2002 13:05:22 -0400 From: Super-User To: bug-gnu-emacs@gnu.org Subject: Dangerous: delete-file deletes current directory as root!! Reply-To: pot@gnu.org X-Virus-Scanned: by AMaViS-perl11-milter (http://amavis.org/) Sender: bug-gnu-emacs-admin@gnu.org Date: Wed, 9 Oct 2002 18:58:37 +0200 (MEST) This bug report will be sent to the Free Software Foundation, not to your local site managers! Please write in English, because the Emacs maintainers do not have translators to read other languages for them. Your bug report will be posted to the bug-gnu-emacs@gnu.org mailing list, and to the gnu.emacs.bug news group. In GNU Emacs 21.2.1 (sparc-sun-solaris2.8, X toolkit) of 2002-10-08 on mailserver Important settings: value of $LC_ALL: nil value of $LC_COLLATE: nil value of $LC_CTYPE: nil value of $LC_MESSAGES: nil value of $LC_MONETARY: nil value of $LC_NUMERIC: nil value of $LC_TIME: nil value of $LANG: nil locale-coding-system: nil default-enable-multibyte-characters: t Please describe exactly what actions triggered the bug and the precise symptoms of the bug: I am not knowledgeable about this platform, but here Emacs has a serious and dangerous bug. When running as root (did not try as a normal user) if one does: M-x delete-file RET Emacs deletes the current directory! I suspect that this is not a recursive deletion, rather I think that it simply unlinks it, leaving all the files there but unreachable, because the operation is instantaneous and the directory I lost was the whole Pyhton source tree, so it cannot have recursively deleted it in a few tenths of second. Recent input: ESC O A ESC O A ESC O A ESC O B ESC O A ESC O A ESC O A ESC O A C-g p w d RET m k d i r SPC a RET c d SPC a RET ESC x d e l e t e SPC f i SPC RET RET c d SPC . . RET ESC p ESC p ESC p RET c d SPC a RET > b RET l s RET ESC x ESC O A RET RET ESC x r e p o r t - e m TAB RET Recent messages: /usr/local/src call-interactively: Quit repeat-complex-command: Quit /usr/local/src/a /usr/local/src History item: 1 History item: 2 History item: 3 /usr/local/src/a Loading emacsbug...done _______________________________________________ Bug-gnu-emacs mailing list Bug-gnu-emacs@gnu.org http://mail.gnu.org/mailman/listinfo/bug-gnu-emacs ------- End of forwarded message -------