A security hole

[Michael Bloom]

In article <379 at vsi.UUCP> friedl at vsi.UUCP (Stephen J. Friedl) writes:
|In article <478 at minya.UUCP>, jc at minya.UUCP (John Chambers) writes:

| > dire warnings like:
| >      The 'cc' command contains a MAJOR security hole; you should delete it
| >      from your system as fast as possible.  I can't tell you what the hole
| >      is, because it would allow any hacker to break into any Unix system in
| >      the world.  Believe me; I know what I'm talking about.
| > It's easy enough to make up warnings like these, but many of them turn out
| > on investigation to be full of bull; some are in fact fraudulent attempts

Umm, if I remember my history lessons correctly, this *intentionally
coded* bug was only in an early version of the ritchie compiler, and
not in pcc.  Please don't delete cc. (at least not yet; gnu cc is
still in beta test :-)