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> Hmm... does ANY other program than chown have this kinda problems with -R ? ;)
> ... IMHO programs should deny root from doing obviously stupid things...

No way. Root can _always_ shoot him/herself in the foot.
That is the great order of things. Don't mess with mother nature :-)

Shall we protect against 'rm -r / tmp/*' too? :-) I've seen clowns
do this obviously stupid move too.

> So why not start a holy crusade to get rid of chown:s that do -R ? ;)

Err...you mean clowns, right? ;-)

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Andrew E. Mileski mailto:aem@netcom.ca

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