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- From: vjs@rhyolite.wpd.sgi.com (Vernon Schryver)
- Subject: Re: Is there a 'dump' program for IRIX?
- Message-ID: <nu516eo@rhyolite.wpd.sgi.com>
- Organization: Silicon Graphics, Inc. Mountain View, CA
- References: <31518@adm.brl.mil> <1992Jul24.201601.14227@eng.umd.edu> <1992Jul29.171432.8977@unixg.ubc.ca>
- Date: Thu, 30 Jul 1992 03:28:11 GMT
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- In article <1992Jul29.171432.8977@unixg.ubc.ca>, laplante@ocgy.ubc.ca (Denis Laplante) writes:
- > Changing the subject slightly, I would like to draw attention on two
- > differences between dump under IRIX and the BSD and Sun versions.
- >
- > 1- It counts blocks of 1024 bytes, not 512 ! For du and df, the IRIX versions
- > count blocks of 512 bytes. It seems like a lot of trouble just to to be
- > different from SunOs :-)
-
- IRIX is cursed with a System V heritage. We'll have to see the similar
- curse aflicts df and du in SunOS.
-
- Many people use
- alias df df -k
- alis du du -k
- to get reasonable numbers.
-
-
- > 2- Under IRIX dump is not suid:
- > Under SunOs 4.1.2
- > -rwsr-sr-x 1 root tty 57344 Oct 23 1991 /usr/etc/dump*
- > but under IRIX 4.0.1
- > -rwxr-xr-x 1 root sys 131120 Jan 17 10:09 /usr/etc/dump*
- > ...
- > Is there a reason not to make dump suid root?...
-
-
- Would making dump suid allow someone to read files they shouldn't?
-
- From over the net, no less?
-
-
- Vernon Schryver, vjs@sgi.com
-