On 01/02/2014 03:42 PM, Patrick O'Callaghan wrote:It's always been a principle that *nix won't stop you from doing something stupid if it prevents me from doing something clever. I can't see how removing the installed kernel could be clever, but that might have been behind their thinking.
That would imply that someone actually took the decision to *remove* the
protections against leaving the system with no installed kernel. Was
this discussed? What were the proposers smoking?
Actually, AIUI, the file isn't removed until the last program that's using it closes the file.