I'll add mine:

We had a developer on a Sun box who somehow managed to set all
of his source files to be executable.  On that particular version of
Solaris, when you went into filemgr and double click on an executable
file, filemgr executed it as a shell script.  As it happened, the standard
headers on our
source files contained some sccs keywords which caused sccs to
insert the source file name into the header as the first thing on one
line.

So, when filemgr spawned a shell to execute the source file and encountered
the name of the source file, it tried to execute the source file again...
Within a few minutes we had a rather large number of processes spawning
other
processes faster than anyone could kill them.  The only solution was to
delete the offending source file.  Eventually we managed to get this guy
assigned to another department.

Peter Schauss
Northrop Grumman Corporation
516-346-3148
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