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Re:Curl doesn’t spew binary anymore by Crontab on Saturday June 17, 2017 @07:52AM (#14575468)
I am sympathetic to your comment because it feels like we are babying users. To me, this is no different than when FreeBSD and GNU modified the rm command to prevent people from shooting themselves in the foot.
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Re:Curl doesn’t spew binary anymore by shawnz on Saturday June 17, 2017 @08:08AM (#14575538)
I thought they changed it to prevent buggy scripts from executing rm with empty variables? That's not necessarily the fault of the user.
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Re:Curl doesn’t spew binary anymore by pcwalton on Saturday June 17, 2017 @01:12PM (#14576700)
> To me, this is no different than when FreeBSD and GNU modified the rm command to prevent people from shooting themselves in the foot.

Which was the right change. It prevents data loss for negligible added complexity.

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