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Infinite bloat

Posted Jul 25, 2006 1:00 UTC (Tue) by jonabbey (subscriber, #2736)
In reply to: Infinite bloat by aegl
Parent article: OLS: On how user space sucks

But invoking a complete /bin/sh process to evaluate the empty shell script file would have been worse, surely?

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Infinite bloat

Posted Jul 25, 2006 1:11 UTC (Tue) by zlynx (subscriber, #2285) [Link]

Not mine, but I remembered seeing it before.

Here you go :)
http://www.muppetlabs.com/~breadbox/software/tiny/true.as...

Infinite bloat

Posted Aug 9, 2006 1:28 UTC (Wed) by barrygould (guest, #4774) [Link]

True was changed from a shell script to an executable due to the fact that running a shell for a user that wasn't supposed to be able to login (e.g. an ftp-only user) created a security hole (ctrl-c could get you a shell).

Barry