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Article #7326Re: strange path hardwired in awk
From: Marcus J Ranum
Date: Fri, 29 Jan 1993 03:40
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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Path: arc1-ca.pugleaf.net!sparky!uunet!tis.com!mjr From: mjr@tis.com (Marcus J Ranum) Newsgroups: comp.unix.ultrix Subject: Re: strange path hardwired in awk Date: 29 Jan 1993 03:40:53 GMT Organization: Trusted Information Systems, Inc. Lines: 13 Message-ID: <1ka905INNip0@sol.tis.com> References: <1993Jan28.121515.3498@black.ox.ac.uk> NNTP-Posting-Host: sol.tis.com Keywords: awk