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Article #1101Re: Hard Links between UNIX Utility Programs
From: Dale Farnsworth
Date: Wed, 27 Jul 1988 15:14
Date: Wed, 27 Jul 1988 15:14
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M. D. Parker (mparker@chip.UUCP) writes: > I have noticed the tendency for some programs in UNIX to have hard links. > The program operation is then determined by the name it was invoked by. > > I'd like to request that in future releases, this short-cut be eliminated. Argv[0] is just like any other argument to a unix program. If a program shouldn't change its behavior based on argv[0], it shouldn't change its behavior on argv[1], argv[2], .... Programs that provide more features than are absolutely necessary for the job at hand are necessarily less secure than a program without the additional features. Security comes at a price. -Dale -- Dale Farnsworth 602-438-3092 noao!nud!df
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Path: arc1-ca.pugleaf.net!utzoo!utgpu!attcan!uunet!lll-winken!lll-tis!ames!ncar!noao!nud!df From: df@nud.UUCP (Dale Farnsworth) Newsgroups: comp.bugs.4bsd,comp.bugs.misc,comp.bugs.sys5 Subject: Re: Hard Links between UNIX Utility Programs Message-ID: <1190@nud.UUCP> Date: 27 Jul 88 15:14:53 GMT References: <184@chip.UUCP> Reply-To: df@nud.UUCP (Dale Farnsworth) Organization: Motorola Microcomputer Division, Tempe, Az. Lines: 17