• rbn@sopuli.xyz
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    2 months ago

    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.

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        2 months ago

        Yes, though you could also do rm -rf /* afaik to not need --no-preserve-root

        Edit: I just realized that the * is already in the meme. So this should already work as is. Alternatively you could always use the good old way of “act now and remove all French roots of your system: rm -fr / --no-preserve-root

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            2 months ago

            because it won’t let you do that:

            elvith@testvm:~$ sudo rm -fr /

            rm: it is dangerous to operate recursively on ‘/’

            rm: use --no-preserve-root to override this failsafe

    • DefederateLemmyMl@feddit.nl
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      2 months ago

      as the binary is already loaded into memory

      That’s not the reason why it continues. It’s because there’s still a file descriptor open to rm.