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authormickey <mickey@openbsd.org>2002-01-24 19:21:39 +0000
committermickey <mickey@openbsd.org>2002-01-24 19:21:39 +0000
commit687b5e0d10662bdf6367683e82981d38647a5f14 (patch)
treeda329a93ee9fa409151315a58ac159c26227d14c
parentremove old style init used by mips. uses _thread_init_constructor now (diff)
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restore a little bit of historical material
-rw-r--r--bin/rm/rm.112
1 files changed, 11 insertions, 1 deletions
diff --git a/bin/rm/rm.1 b/bin/rm/rm.1
index cf0246b14bd..6ef60dd6b05 100644
--- a/bin/rm/rm.1
+++ b/bin/rm/rm.1
@@ -1,4 +1,4 @@
-.\" $OpenBSD: rm.1,v 1.16 2001/12/21 11:41:50 mpech Exp $
+.\" $OpenBSD: rm.1,v 1.17 2002/01/24 19:21:39 mickey Exp $
.\" $NetBSD: rm.1,v 1.8 1995/07/25 19:37:30 jtc Exp $
.\"
.\" Copyright (c) 1990, 1993, 1994
@@ -121,6 +121,11 @@ It is an error to attempt to remove the files
.Dq \&.
or
.Dq .. .
+It is forbidden to remove the file
+.Dq ..
+merely to avoid the antisocial consequences of inadvertently
+doing something like
+.Dq Cm rm -r .* .
.Pp
The
.Nm
@@ -162,6 +167,11 @@ Also, historical
.Bx
implementations prompted on the standard output,
not the standard error output.
+.Pp
+The interactive mode used to be a
+.Nm dsw
+command, a carryover from the ancient past with an
+amusing etymology.
.Sh STANDARDS
The
.Nm