Here's how to stop shell escapes from vi

[Wayne Schlitt]

In article <1990Sep29.002328.27798 at ibmpcug.co.uk> dylan at ibmpcug.co.uk (Matthew Farwell) writes:
> [ ... ]
> 
> All this means we come back to the statement:
> 
> The ONLY way to make vi safe is to hack the source code.
> 

and this statement is quite wrong.  you _can_ make vi (or any other
program that you can read the binary) secure by disassembling it and
zapping various parts of the binary.  source just makes life easier...


-wayne