On Saturday 22 May 2010 16:28:38 Kevin Kofler wrote: > Anne Wilson wrote: > > On Friday 21 May 2010 10:40:50 Kevin Kofler wrote: > >> It's not a bug. It's an important bugfix! If you have "rm -rf " typed in > >> your terminal and Dolphin enters "cd something" and ENTER, boom! This > >> has already lead to real-world data loss for some people! There's an > >> upstream bug filed for this, and I guess they finally fixed that now. > >> Typing "cd somedir" into a random command's prompt is also going to do > >> no good, Ctrl+C also protects against that. > > > > How? Can you explain more? > > Dolphin just sends keypresses to the process running inside the > KonsolePart. So if you have "rm -rf " typed, typing "cd somedir" and > Enter/Return will result in: > rm -rf cd somedir > which will delete somedir (and complain about no file or directory named cd > existing)! > > Ctrl+C is an effective way to clear the command line, and also interrupt > non-shell processes which may be waiting for input. > Hmm - ok - nannying. It just seemed so unlikely to me, but I guess it does little harm. Anne -- KDE Community Working Group New to KDE Software? - get help from http://userbase.kde.org -------------- next part -------------- A non-text attachment was scrubbed... Name: not available Type: application/pgp-signature Size: 198 bytes Desc: This is a digitally signed message part. Url : http://lists.fedoraproject.org/pipermail/kde/attachments/20100522/dc59703c/attachment.bin
