Re: Beware xargs security holes

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From: Karl Lehenbauer
Date: Fri, 26 Oct 1990 17:51

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In article <1990Oct20.032718.1874@cbnews.att.com> res@cbnews.att.com (Robert E. Stampfli) writes:
>No user, malicious or not, can remove "every file on the system."
>In fact, I contend it is impossible to remove the last instance of
>an executable that contains the unlink() system call.

Oh, then I guess it's not a problem...
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From: karl@ficc.ferranti.com (Karl Lehenbauer)
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Subject: Re: Beware xargs security holes
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Date: 26 Oct 90 17:51:30 GMT
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