Re: I learnt to test my WHERE clauses on a DELETE with a SELECT first
You should have read for context and thought about why I wrote this patch for the Bugtraq security list!
It originated from a discussion regarding attacks where someone who had write access one of the directories being cleaned up (often directories where everyone has write access, like /tmp) could fool that command into deleting ANY file on the system. Both of the variants posted above are vulnerable to this, so I posted a find patch I'd written with the -delete builtin which was not vulnerable.
It isn't creeping featurism if it solves an actual problem.
Biting the hand that feeds IT
