Re: Chroot and ".."

[Jonathan S. Shapiro]

On Thu, 2005-10-13 at 20:32 +0200, Alfred M. Szmidt wrote:
>    I will certainly get the spelling wrong, but dvd stood for:
> 
>          dos ve danya
> 
> Then you'll be suprised now, what you call dvd is really dsw.  And has
> nothing to do with `rm -r'!  People who didn't know what dsw stood for
> often called it `dasvedanja' (which means good bye in Russian).
> 
> The reason why you used dsw at all was because rm couldn't handle
> removing filenames with funky chars, it had zlich todo with removal of
> subdirectories.

Interesting. I hadn't used this myself -- I think I was in elementary
school this year. I got the story from someone who did use the system,
and I probably have mangled my memory of the story over time.

Thanks for straightening me out.

shap