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Re: strange path hardwired in awk

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From: Marcus J Ranum
Date: Fri, 29 Jan 1993 03:40
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>While looking through a more than usually verbose audit log,
>I noticed that awk attempts to open /crp/pjw/awkhist/awkhist.
>`strings /bin/awk' shows that this path is hardwired into
>the binary. Does anyone know why or what this is?

	Well, pwj is Peter Weinberger, the 'w' in "awk". I'd
be very surprised if this wasn't some kind of joke, though, since
a load of people have picked over the awk code since its inception.
I vaguely recall someone telling me that the version of nawk that
ships with ULTRIX is from Mortise Kern Systems, not the original
AT&T version, though I never bothered to check.

mjr.
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From: mjr@tis.com (Marcus J Ranum)
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Subject: Re: strange path hardwired in awk
Date: 29 Jan 1993 03:40:53 GMT
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