Relay-Version: version B 2.10 5/3/83; site utzoo.UUCP Posting-Version: version B 2.10.1 6/24/83; site bu-cs.UUCP Path: utzoo!watmath!clyde!burl!ulysses!allegra!mit-eddie!think!harvard!bu-cs!root From: root@bu-cs.UUCP (Barry Shein) Newsgroups: net.bugs.usg Subject: Re: Not Necessarily a Bug (but worth reading) Message-ID: <687@bu-cs.UUCP> Date: Sat, 28-Sep-85 00:21:12 EDT Article-I.D.: bu-cs.687 Posted: Sat Sep 28 00:21:12 1985 Date-Received: Mon, 30-Sep-85 00:46:30 EDT References: <668@bu-cs.UUCP>, <189@ho95e.UUCP> Organization: Boston Univ Comp. Sci. Lines: 11 Keywords: Restricted shells, SVR2 /bin/sh buggy, ksh works fine Re: an 'r' anywhere in argv[0] will cause sh (SYSV) to run restricted I have been told by ATTIS that this is considered a bug and will be fixed in a future release. So I guess it's Not Necessarily Not Necessarily a bug :-) Thank you ATTIS (and Guy Harris for pointing the same way.) -Barry Shein, Boston University P.S. that is, you can fix your shell or at least consider workarounds temporary (#ifdef NOTNECESSARILY....) The shell fix is trivial (if you have sources.)