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Re: [Bug Report] Erroneous path resolution for `rm /*`

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From: Bart Schaefer <schaefer@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
To: "Le, Vinh-Kha" <lvinhkh@xxxxxxxxxx>
Cc: "zsh-workers@xxxxxxx" <zsh-workers@xxxxxxx>
Subject: Re: [Bug Report] Erroneous path resolution for `rm /*`
Date: Wed, 1 Sep 2021 15:12:24 -0700
Archived-at: <https://zsh.org/workers/49367>
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On Wed, Sep 1, 2021 at 3:09 PM Bart Schaefer <schaefer@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
>
> On Wed, Sep 1, 2021 at 2:33 PM Le, Vinh-Kha <lvinhkh@xxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
> >
> > Running `rm /*` triggers a prompt for the pattern `*` at the current directory rather than at root. This is misleading and could prove disastrous.
>
> I am almost certain I've seen this reported before, but no fix was
> ever committed.

Yep, thread starting with workers/46169 in January 2020, but none of
the (several? I didn't try to re-parse the whole thread) patches got
applied.

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- [Bug Report] Erroneous path resolution for `rm /*`
  - From: Le, Vinh-Kha
- Re: [Bug Report] Erroneous path resolution for `rm /*`
  - From: Bart Schaefer

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