linuxmemes

Well it is also in linux memes

Technically correct because you can’t make an account without the server.

I have no way to confirm or deny this, it may as well be true for all I know

(my first comment on lemmy! yay!)

And they use arch btw

I'll bet your boot process is a lot shorter too.

There’s even performance to sword and shield.

hunter2

Does powershell have sudo? What does that do on windows, show a uac prompt or something?

I think it would continue even after it's own deletion as the binary is already loaded into memory, so process is not dependent on the file system. Still doubt that it'll complete successfully. Most likely the system crashes in the middle.

In Unix/Linux, a removed file only disappears when the last file descriptor to it is gone. As long as the file /usr/bin/rm is still opened by a process (and it is, because it is running) it will not actually be deleted from disk from the perspective of that process.

This also why removing a log file that's actively being written to doesn't clear up filesystem space, and why it's more effective to truncate it instead. ( e.g. Run > /var/log/myhugeactivelogfile.log instead of rm /var/log/myhugeactivelogfile.log), or why Linux can upgrade a package that's currently running and the running process will just keep chugging along as the old version, until restarted.

Sometimes you can even use this to recover an accidentally deleted file, if it's still held open in a process. You can go to /proc/$PID/fd, where $PID is the process ID of the process holding the file open, and find all the file descriptors it has in use, and then copy the lost content from there.

rm doesn't remove memory in RAM

Since you forgot to add - - preserve-root It won't go too far. But at some point the system wants to load a file that is deleted and the kernel will panic. System crash. Delete incomplete. But rest assured, the important stuff is gone.

Basically

Obscure

Optimal

Trojan

Remove it now

rm ./-rf

rm ./—rf\ \*

Am I missing something?

if you use fish you can tab-cycle tour way to the file

I've been using Linux as my main driver for a couple of years now but I didn't know the list of reserved file name characters is so short.

I didn't believe '*' is allowed. That alone is so error-prone, it's insane. Backslash is allowed too - how do you escape that? Sometimes I think they giggled while writing the specs.