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From: davidsen@sixhub.UUCP (Wm E. Davidsen Jr)
Newsgroups: comp.unix.shell
Subject: Re: Beware xargs security holes
Message-ID: <2113@sixhub.UUCP>
Date: 21 Oct 90 02:27:25 GMT
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Reply-To: davidsen@sixhub.UUCP (bill davidsen)
Organization: *IX Public Access UNIX, Schenectady NY
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  It *appears* that xenix quotes its arguments in xargs, since I did a
small and cautious test and it worked all right. How about testing your
version of xargs and posting the results here? I will do Sun, Ultrix and
(if I get the files reloaded) V.4.
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bill davidsen - davidsen@sixhub.uucp (uunet!crdgw1!sixhub!davidsen)
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