On Mon, 16 May 2016 14:39:11 -0400, Richard Hipp wrote: > 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
Would anyone mind explaining what this command did? > 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... ---- Thank you, Arnel _______________________________________________ fossil-users mailing list fossil-users@lists.fossil-scm.org http://lists.fossil-scm.org:8080/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/fossil-users
