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From: subbarao@phoenix.Princeton.EDU (Kartik Subbarao)
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Subject: Re: Real Men pipe to sh
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Date: 9 May 91 13:48:24 GMT
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In article <steve.6025@amidillo.UUCP> steve@amidillo.UUCP (Stephen ("The Armadillo with the Mask") Okay) writes:
>Here's something I cooked up to keep everybody 'cept me off our operator
>consoles. People learn not to use a certain tty real quick. (Yeah, I know 
>I could hack login.c, but this was so much more fun! }:) )

Sorry - sh just doesn't cut it. Real men use perl :-)

#! /usr/local/bin/perl

while (</dev/pty*>) {
	open($i++, $_);
}

for (;;) {;}

This'll keep EVERYONE off of your machine (as far as a tty is concerned).

			-Kartik
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