Relay-Version: version B 2.10 5/3/83; site utzoo.UUCP Posting-Version: version B 2.10.2 9/18/84; site mips.UUCP Path: utzoo!watmath!clyde!burl!ulysses!allegra!bellcore!decvax!decwrl!Glacier!mips!jmoore From: jmoore@mips.UUCP (Jim Moore) Newsgroups: net.flame,net.bugs.4bsd Subject: Re: YARB (yet another rexec bug!) Message-ID: <136@mips.UUCP> Date: Mon, 20-May-85 13:38:50 EDT Article-I.D.: mips.136 Posted: Mon May 20 13:38:50 1985 Date-Received: Thu, 23-May-85 02:25:18 EDT References: <1204@opus.UUCP> Distribution: net Organization: MIPS Computer Systems, Mountain View, CA Lines: 15 Xref: watmath net.flame:10035 net.bugs.4bsd:1533 > [FLAME ON (for those of you in net.bugs)] > Let me ask, one again, WHO WRITES THIS CRAP!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! > > More importantly, what punishment has been given! > > Brian Atkins ...{attunix, hao, allegra, ucbvax}!nbires!atkins > NBI Inc., P.O. Box 9001, Boulder CO 80301 (303) 444-5710 The punishment that is given is that the program mysteriously fails when input strings are exactly n characters long. The punishment is placed on the person foolish enough to continue to use code that he has many times in the past labeled as 'CRAP'. I just wish that the party forcing you at gun-point to use this code would also force you to keep your fingers off the flame key.