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- Path: sparky!uunet!mcsun!uknet!mucs!lucsand!liv!ee117
- From: EE117@LIVERPOOL.AC.UK
- Newsgroups: comp.lang.c
- Subject: don't try this at home kids...
- Message-ID: <92198.164011EE117@LIVERPOOL.AC.UK>
- Date: 16 Jul 92 15:40:11 GMT
- Organization: University of Liverpool
- Lines: 13
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- I recently ran this Mickey Mouse fragment of C code under Unix on our
- Sun network:
-
- f()
- { system ("<title of this program> &");
- f(); }
- main()
- { f() }
-
- result: one completely trashed network, yours truly hung by the balls
- out of the computer lab window and banned of the system for several weeks.
- I almost said in passing to the System Administrator that O/S security isn't
- what i
-