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    [–] crimsoncobalt@lemmy.world 17 points 1 month ago (15 children)

    Does this really work? Wouldn't rm remove itself in /bin early in the process?

    [–] rbn@sopuli.xyz 49 points 1 month ago* (last edited 1 month ago) (5 children)

    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.

    [–] SpaceCadet@feddit.nl 2 points 1 month 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.

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