^C in Dolphin Terminal Panel

[Anne Wilson]

On Saturday 22 May 2010 16:28:38 Kevin Kofler wrote:
> Anne Wilson wrote:
> > On Friday 21 May 2010 10:40:50 Kevin Kofler wrote:
> >> It's not a bug. It's an important bugfix! If you have "rm -rf " typed in
> >> your terminal and Dolphin enters "cd something" and ENTER, boom! This
> >> has already lead to real-world data loss for some people! There's an
> >> upstream bug filed for this, and I guess they finally fixed that now.
> >> Typing "cd somedir" into a random command's prompt is also going to do
> >> no good, Ctrl+C also protects against that.
> > 
> > How?  Can you explain more?
> 
> Dolphin just sends keypresses to the process running inside the
> KonsolePart. So if you have "rm -rf " typed, typing "cd somedir" and
> Enter/Return will result in:
> rm -rf cd somedir
> which will delete somedir (and complain about no file or directory named cd
> existing)!
> 
> Ctrl+C is an effective way to clear the command line, and also interrupt
> non-shell processes which may be waiting for input.
> 
Hmm - ok - nannying.  It just seemed so unlikely to me, but I guess it does 
little harm.

Anne
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