Path: utzoo!utgpu!news-server.csri.toronto.edu!cs.utexas.edu!rice!uw-beaver!stowe.cs.washington.edu!pauld From: pauld@stowe.cs.washington.edu (Paul Barton-Davis) Newsgroups: comp.unix.wizards Subject: Re: BSD tty security, part 3: How to Fix It Message-ID: <1991May6.163746.15752@beaver.cs.washington.edu> Date: 6 May 91 16:37:46 GMT References: <73525@eerie.acsu.Buffalo.EDU> <235@harem.clydeunix.com> <1991May6.112302.27896@prl.dec.com> Sender: news@beaver.cs.washington.edu (USENET News System) Organization: Computer Science & Engineering, U. of Washington, Seattle Lines: 24 In article <1991May6.112302.27896@prl.dec.com> boyd@prl.dec.com (Boyd Roberts) writes: > > [ ... deleted ] > >UNIX write(1) is small and simple. It does the job in a friendly environment. >It was not written to deal with boofheads who'd cat /dev/universe | write ... > > I think we should avoid picking on write(1), or cat(1).How about: Unix is small and simple. It does the job in a friendly environment. It was not written to deal with boofheads. Actually, watching unix.wizards for only 1 month, I'm beginning to lose my reverence for this OS completely. The elegance and purity of the thing were an adequate compensation for doing a very inhuman job, but the way it seems Unix is going to be in another 2 years, I almost think its not worth going on ... -- Paul Barton-Davis UW Computer Science Lab "People cannot cooperate towards common goals if they are forced to compete with each other in order to guarantee their own survival."