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

[Doug McNaught]

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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