On 5/16/16, Stephan Beal <sgb...@googlemail.com> wrote: > > The web UI offers a "delete branch" > feature and i'm always _so tempted_ to click it (and click "yes" on the > subsequent confirmation dialog), _simply to prove a point_.
1985. I was working at Bell Labs writing horizontal microcode for a signal processing chip. Development was hosted on a VAX. There were about a dozen developers all on the same machine. I noticed that the disk drive block devices (/dev/dsk0, /dev/dsk1, etc) all has global rwx permission. I went to the sysadmin and said "Hey, this a security problem - anybody can write anywhere on the disk!". "No, he said. Block devices don't work that way." I could not convince him otherwise. So I walked back to my VT100 and typed: echo Hello >/dev/dsk0 Neither the sysadmin, nor our manager, nor the other dozen developers using that machine were amused at being off-line for an hour while system was restored... -- D. Richard Hipp d...@sqlite.org _______________________________________________ fossil-users mailing list fossil-users@lists.fossil-scm.org http://lists.fossil-scm.org:8080/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/fossil-users
