shars
Brandon Allbery
allbery at ncoast.UUCP
Mon Apr 28 00:06:31 AEST 1986
Expires:
Quoted from <1617 at wucs.UUCP> ["Re: Beware of Blindly Un-SHARing a File"], by tp at wucs.UUCP...
+---------------
| I've been waiting for someone else to say this...
|
| naughtiness in shar files is only the tip of the iceberg. The program
| contained in the shar may do bad things... the makefile that builds the
| program may do bad things...
|
| doesn't have to be anything malicious -- I see a lot of makefiles
| that would install things where I wouldn't want them or would write over
| something important or were just simply incorrect (a lot of the same can
| be said for the shar files; a lot of authors don't seem to anticipate system
| configurations different from their own).
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I document any Makefile system-specific install paths; and my version of
``shar'' checks to see if the destination exists: if it does, it allows you
to overwrite OR rename the to-be-unshar'ed file OR skip the file.
--Brandon
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