Path: utzoo!attcan!uunet!know!zaphod.mps.ohio-state.edu!lavaca.uh.edu!menudo.uh.edu!sugar!ficc!karl From: karl@ficc.ferranti.com (Karl Lehenbauer) Newsgroups: comp.unix.shell Subject: Re: Beware xargs security holes Message-ID: Date: 26 Oct 90 17:51:30 GMT References: <1990Oct20.032718.1874@cbnews.att.com> Reply-To: karl@ficc.ferranti.com (Karl Lehenbauer) Organization: Ferranti International Controls Corporation Lines: 6 In article <1990Oct20.032718.1874@cbnews.att.com> res@cbnews.att.com (Robert E. Stampfli) writes: >No user, malicious or not, can remove "every file on the system." >In fact, I contend it is impossible to remove the last instance of >an executable that contains the unlink() system call. Oh, then I guess it's not a problem... -- -- uunet!sugar!ficc!karl (wk), uunet!sugar!karl (hm) "The computer programmer is a creator of universes for which he alone is responsible. Universes of virtually unlimited complexity can be created in the form of computer programs." -- Joseph Weizenbaum