Re: Hard Links between UNIX Utility Programs

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From: Bill "Spam Eggs Sausage and Spam...
Date: Wed, 27 Jul 1988 06:49

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Bad example. Even if you completely wipe out the ability to run sendmail
as "mailq," you can still run it as "sendmail -bp".

And links, hard or soft, aren't the only way. How's this:

main()
{
  execl("/usr/lib/sendmail","mailq",0);
}
-- 
Bill Wisner / wisner@killer.dallas.tx.us / +1 208 286 7929

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Path: arc1-ca.pugleaf.net!utzoo!utgpu!attcan!uunet!lll-winken!lll-tis!ames!killer!wisner
From: wisner@killer.DALLAS.TX.US (Bill "Spam Eggs Sausage and Spam" Wisner)
Newsgroups: comp.bugs.4bsd,comp.bugs.misc,comp.bugs.sys5
Subject: Re: Hard Links between UNIX Utility Programs
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Date: 27 Jul 88 06:49:47 GMT
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