That's a lot of exceptional cases for something you shouldn't touch. It's kind of like saying, if I'm root and I've disabled "--preserve-root" and then I "rm *

That's a lot of exceptional cases for something you shouldn't touch. It's kind of like saying, if I'm root and I've disabled "--preserve-root" and then I "rm * /", that Linux should have something else to prevent the user from hosing their own system. I mean they could do that, but where do you draw the line?