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From: jbm@uncle.UUCP (John B. Milton)
Newsgroups: unix-pc.bugs
Subject: Re: Amazing Maze is amazing
Message-ID: <374@uncle.UUCP>
Date: 24 Oct 88 01:55:34 GMT
References: <117@ureka.UUCP>
Reply-To: jbm@uncle.UUCP (John B. Milton)
Organization: Just me and my computer, Columbus Ohio
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In article <117@ureka.UUCP> charlie@ureka.UUCP (charlie crassi) writes:
>Subject: Bugs in my Maze
>Keywords: Amazing Maze
>
>I had a new user to ureka call me when his terminal got hung up. What I found
>I could not explain so I hope perhaps Lenny, John, or some other UNIX-PC jock
>can assist.

Wow, I'm up to jock class now!

The problem is that Hic's amazing maze is not so amazing. It does not check to
see if the person running it is on the console, i.e. with:
if (strncmp(ttyname(0),"/dev/w",6)==0) ...

and since it did not check, it went ahead and opened /dev/window. Oh, yeah
anyone can open /dev/window. It is no surprise that console input did not
do anything, the program was still reading from the terminal.

But, wait! there's more! Just try to remove (de-install) Hic's amazing maze.
The "'" in Hic's goofs up the remove procedure, so you can't remove it.

John
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