Moved ~/.local/share/steam. Ran steam. It deleted everything owned by user

Post by zamalek » Fri, Jan 16, 2015, 6:33 AM UTC

ghuntley wrote: post #66

akamaka wrote: post #3

Here's the offending shell script code: # figure out the absolute path to the script being run a bit # non-obvious, the ${0%/*} pulls the path out of $0, cd's into the # specified directory, then uses $PWD to figure out where that # directory lives - and all this in a subshell, so we don't affect # $PWD STEAMROOT="$(cd "${0%/*}" && echo $PWD)" [...] # Scary! rm -rf "$STEAMROOT/"* The programmer knew the danger and di…

Offending commit @ https://github.com/lrusak/steam_latest/commit/21cc14158c171f...

Post by greenknight » Fri, Jan 16, 2015, 6:40 AM UTC

EC1 wrote: post #40

akamaka wrote: post #3

Here's the offending shell script code: # figure out the absolute path to the script being run a bit # non-obvious, the ${0%/*} pulls the path out of $0, cd's into the # specified directory, then uses $PWD to figure out where that # directory lives - and all this in a subshell, so we don't affect # $PWD STEAMROOT="$(cd "${0%/*}" && echo $PWD)" [...] # Scary! rm -rf "$STEAMROOT/"* The programmer knew the danger and di…

I thought I was a bad programmer until I saw this thread. How did this make it to prod?

Post by [deleted] » Fri, Jan 16, 2015, 6:54 AM UTC

woodman wrote: post #179

thevardanian wrote: post #177

Earlier quoted context omitted.

Just because you've invented solar panels does not mean that you've solved the energy crisis. Sometimes the implementation of technology is just as inventive as the invention itself.

lol, ok lets break this down Barney style: Converting sunlight to electricity is a solved problem. The "energy crisis" remains unsolved. Jailing processes is a solved problem. Preventing users from shooting themselves in the foot remains unsolved. Now let us reexamine the post: > ...would be a helpful thing to build into modern operating systems... Already built in. > Why can’t we also have something analogous where…

Post by Chattered » Fri, Jan 16, 2015, 7:05 AM UTC

justizin wrote: post #57

Xylemon wrote: post #19

Something like this with Steam happened to my friend not too long ago. It was very saddening because he literally lost years of files (including personal projects) and salvaged what he could. That was with the Steam Beta and I caught Steam doing this myself (after he told me what happened). I was lucky to stop the script and switched out of the beta. At the time he reported this to Valve themselves and said they were…

That is quite frustrating, and consumer vendors should be mindful of creating life-changing experiences. Also: backups. I know it sounds cliche, but look, if it has a mechanical hard drive, the manufacturer could have slightly mis-calibrated one of the mechanical assemblies, and this could have happened because the nature of digital storage is that it is essentially ephemeral. Protect yourself from things outside you…

Post by unwind » Fri, Jan 16, 2015, 7:35 AM UTC

enneff wrote: post #21

akamaka wrote: post #3

Here's the offending shell script code: # figure out the absolute path to the script being run a bit # non-obvious, the ${0%/*} pulls the path out of $0, cd's into the # specified directory, then uses $PWD to figure out where that # directory lives - and all this in a subshell, so we don't affect # $PWD STEAMROOT="$(cd "${0%/*}" && echo $PWD)" [...] # Scary! rm -rf "$STEAMROOT/"* The programmer knew the danger and di…

Gotta question why they used -f.