Beware xargs security holes

Wm E. Davidsen Jr davidsen at sixhub.UUCP
Sun Oct 21 12:27:25 AEST 1990


  It *appears* that xenix quotes its arguments in xargs, since I did a
small and cautious test and it worked all right. How about testing your
version of xargs and posting the results here? I will do Sun, Ultrix and
(if I get the files reloaded) V.4.
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