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| author | Mateusz Czapliński <czapkofan@gmail.com> | 2018-10-24 12:02:26 +0000 |
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| committer | GitHub <noreply@github.com> | 2018-10-24 12:02:26 +0000 |
| commit | 5bb81d216865514df0f864d89edb04bb4906ebb5 (patch) | |
| tree | 309961b6d5013e8a1dcc32656828ab5b9230cd12 | |
| parent | 3f1b9eaf227d40d13259e3fd95315c617e7c301a (diff) | |
readme: tweak the warning about "rm"
| -rw-r--r-- | README.md | 13 |
1 files changed, 7 insertions, 6 deletions
@@ -38,12 +38,13 @@ then: Wireless interface Centrino Advanced-N 6235 Ethernet interface RTL8111/8168/8411 PCI Express Gigabit Ethernet Controller - - **WARNING: Please think when using it!** In particular, writing "rm" or "dd" - into it could be like running around with a chainsaw. But you'd be careful - writing "rm" anywhere in Linux anyway, no? Also, why would you want to - pipe something into "rm"? Other than that, I don't really have good ideas - how to protect against cases like this. And in the other, non-dangerous - cases, I find the tool immensely useful. If you have some ideas how to + - **WARNING: Please be careful when using it! It could be dangerous.** + In particular, writing "rm" or "dd" into it could be like running around + with a chainsaw. But you'd be careful writing "rm" anywhere in Linux + anyway, no? Also, why would you want to pipe something into "rm"? Other + than that, I don't really have good ideas how to protect against cases + like this. And in the other, non-dangerous cases, I find the tool + immensely useful. If you have some ideas how to try to protect, [please share!](https://github.com/akavel/up/issues) That said, a tool wouldn't be really Unixy if you couldn't hurt yourself with it, right? ;P |