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From: emcguire@ccad.uiowa.edu (Ed McGuire)
Newsgroups: comp.unix.shell
Subject: Re: Beware xargs security holes
Message-ID: <1990Oct23.164329.10852@ccad.uiowa.edu>
Date: 23 Oct 90 16:43:29 GMT
References: <4062:Oct1518:22:1290@kramden.acf.nyu.edu> <SGH6K6D@xds13.ferranti.com> <1990Oct21.013603.25168@cbnewsh.att.com>
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In article <1990Oct21.013603.25168@cbnewsh.att.com> wcs@cbnewsh.att.com (Bill Stewart 201-949-0705 erebus.att.com!wcs) writes:

> Many systems, especially universities, have a convention that
> filenames beginning with '#' are "marked for death".

Among other things, `#' begins the name of a file created in /lost+found.
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