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From: ron@topaz.rutgers.edu (Ron Natalie)
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Subject: Re: \"+\" filename -> /bin/sh !
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Date: Wed, 21-Oct-87 08:33:06 EDT
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Posted: Wed Oct 21 08:33:06 1987
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This is a bug with the CSH on certain system V machines.  If this
bug ever existed in 4 BSD, it went away a long time ago.  CSH on
these machines (including the UNISOFT system V I have) will do
"/bin/sh +" when you try to execute "+" and it is not a kernel
executable.

It is not:
    1.  Any bug in the Bourne Shell.  Doug Gwyn made the comment
        that no working Bourne Shell would execute the shell when
	you type "+" at it, which is true.  However, the cshell
	is interpretting the script as "/bin/sh +"

    2.  It is not a bug in the kernel.  The kernel is correctly
	returning an error because this file is not executable
	as far as it is concerned.

    3.  A bug that will show up in any modern release of BSD operating
	systems (including those on the SUN), so all you BSD users
	can stop telling us that there is no bug.

-Ron