nami misfeature, cont.
utzoo!decvax!harpo!mhtsa!ihnss!ihps3!stolaf!sft
utzoo!decvax!harpo!mhtsa!ihnss!ihps3!stolaf!sft
Tue Apr 6 18:16:31 AEST 1982
We fixed that one (on V7) long ago. I vaguely remember something about a
command in /etc/rc generating a shell that attempted to read from a null
filename and ended up trying to interpret a directory. Nasty business, that.
There's another ambiguity in the same code. The stock code, as I recall,
accepted multiple slashes between directory names and a trailing slash
after the filename. This doesn't fit the description of a well-formed
pathname, either. We zapped this misfeature at the same time.
Steve Tarr
...!ihnss!ihps3!stolaf!sft
More information about the Net.bugs
mailing list