Subject: Re: kern/1043: unlink(2) should not let superuser remove directories
To: None <jtk@kolvir.blrc.ma.us>
From: Peter Seebach <seebs@solon.com>
List: netbsd-bugs
Date: 05/12/1995 08:03:05 
This is not a bug.  It is a feature.

It is not for us to decide that the superuser is wrong.

It is periodically very handy for debugging or breaking filesystems, or
fixing broken ones.  (In particular, it's one possible way to fix a filename
with a '/' in it.)

-s