CS360 Midterm -- October 18, 2000. Question 2

You are a disgruntled employee with a clearly amoral and vicious demeanor. While in a meeting with your boss, he is called away to talk with his supervisor. You know that the meeting will take exactly thirty minutes, no more, and no less, and during those thirty minutes, you are in his office alone.

The door is closed.

And he has left himself logged into his machine.

Time for some fun. You fire up a new xterm and plan to write a program that you can run later that will remove all of his files.

Write the program that will destroy all of his files. His home directory is /home/boss. This program must do a explicit recursive directory traversal -- you can't call:

system("rm -rf /home/boss");

But the program should be equivalent to the above call.

You might want to peruse the cheat sheet for syntax, etc, of calls that can help you.

Use the answer sheet for question 2 to write your code.

We will continue our devious scenario in Question 3.