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From: mikel@codas.UUCP (Mikel Manitius)
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Subject: Re: Not Necessarily a Bug (but worth reading)
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Date: Thu, 3-Oct-85 21:02:10 EDT
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> Re: an 'r' anywhere in argv[0] will cause sh (SYSV) to run restricted
> 
> I have been told by ATTIS that this is considered a bug and will be
> fixed in a future release. So I guess it's Not Necessarily Not Necessarily
> a bug :-) Thank you ATTIS (and Guy Harris for pointing the same way.)
> 
> 	-Barry Shein, Boston University
> 
> P.S. that is, you can fix your shell or at least consider workarounds
> temporary (#ifdef NOTNECESSARILY....) The shell fix is trivial (if you
> have sources.)

Apparently someone was too lazy to scan only the last word of argv[0]
(a word being delimiterd by '/') for an 'r'. I don't see where someone
would really want to make another copy of sh, although /usr/rbin/sh is
a possibility.
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