Protection from "rm *"

[Bill Vermillion]

In article <1990Oct11.184004.9353 at nntp-server.caltech.edu> gwoho at nntp-server.caltech.edu (g liu) writes:
>
>a good way to protect people from accidental "rm *" is to type "rm /bin/rm"

Well you can't do that on SysV type systems.  You will get an error message
with "Text file busy".  It won't removed itself, because it is in use,
trying to remove itself ;-)

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