Beware xargs security holes

[Conor P. Cahill]

In article <1990Oct20.032718.1874 at cbnews.att.com> res at cbnews.att.com (Robert E. Stampfli) writes:
>No user, malicious or not, can remove "every file on the system."
>In fact, I contend it is impossible to remove the last instance of
>an executable that contains the unlink() system call.

This is only true for system V.  BSD allows you to unlink a running executable.


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