Unraveling rm: what happens when you run it?

https://blog.safia.rocks/unraveling-rm-what-happens-when-you-run-it.html

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9 Comments

bizdelnick@lemmy.ml · 23 pts · 2y (5 replies)

TL;DR: rm calls the unlink syscall and the author wasted a lot of time to find this out and even more time to describe this.

andrew@lemmy.stuart.fun · 36 pts · 2y (1 reply)

Everyone starts somewhere and learns as they go. You did too.

TexMexBazooka@lemm.ee · 12 pts · 2y

He walked out if the womb using a brain implant running arch Linux

roertel@lemmy.world · 7 pts · 2y

This is like those sites where you just need that recipe for the Bloomin' Onion sauce because you forgot one ingredient and you get the life story of the author:

"We were riding on horseback around Tuscany when my riding boot got scuffed by the buckle, so we stopped by a local cobbler to repair it while we listned to the church bells of a nearby..."

3 screens later...

"There was an Outback Express at the airport and I asked the waiter..."

"Horseradish" Oh yeah!

TexMexBazooka@lemm.ee · 2 pts · 2y

Lol 😂 what a pretentious take

342345@feddit.de · 2 pts · 2y

Thanks for the short version.

dannym@lemmy.escapebigtech.info · 11 pts · 2y

wouldn't it have been easier to just read the source code? (not that GNU's code is easy to read, but still)

squid_slime@lemmy.world · 10 pts · 2y
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tsonfeir@lemm.ee · 0 pts · 2y (1 reply)

Nerd ;)

palordrolap@kbin.social · 4 pts · 2y

"Where do you think we are?"