Relay-Version: version B 2.10 5/3/83; site utzoo.UUCP Posting-Version: version B 2.10.1 6/24/83; site ut-ngp.UUCP Path: utzoo!linus!decvax!wivax!cadmus!harvard!seismo!ut-sally!ut-ngp!clyde From: clyde@ut-ngp.UUCP (Clyde W. Hoover) Newsgroups: net.unix-wizards Subject: Re: hazards of linking directories Message-ID: <1003@ut-ngp.UUCP> Date: Fri, 5-Oct-84 11:49:04 EDT Article-I.D.: ut-ngp.1003 Posted: Fri Oct 5 11:49:04 1984 Date-Received: Sat, 6-Oct-84 06:40:57 EDT References: <49@masscomp.UUCP> Organization: U.Texas Computation Center, Austin, Texas Lines: 7 The moral is: programs that do such linking shouuld CHECK what kind of files their arguments are and reject those that are not ordinary files. -- Shouter-To-Dead-Parrots @ Univ. of Texas Computation Center; Austin, Texas "Let's show this prehistoric bitch how we do things downtown" clyde@ut-ngp.ARPA, clyde@ut-sally.ARPA ...!ihnp4!ut-ngp!clyde, ...!allegra!ut-ngp!clyde