SUMMARY: C Compiler Predefined Manifest Definitions

Peter da Silva peter at ficc.ferranti.com
Fri Aug 24 05:13:31 AEST 1990


In article <595 at wattres.UUCP> steve at wattres.UUCP (Steve Watt) writes:
> Which brings up what I consider to be a strange point:  Why is it that most
> *NIX vendors ship systems with all the files in /bin and /usr/bin world-
> readable?  It seems to me that they only need to be world-executable...

Security through obscurity is no security at all.
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