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big security hole in zephyr, esp. xsetroot

daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (amgreene@ATHENA.MIT.EDU)
Fri Mar 24 18:42:31 1989

From: <amgreene@ATHENA.MIT.EDU>
Date: Fri, 24 Mar 89 18:41:41 EST
To: tytso@ATHENA.MIT.EDU
Cc: rfrench@ATHENA.MIT.EDU, jh@ATHENA.MIT.EDU, watch@ATHENA.MIT.EDU,
In-Reply-To: Theodore Ts'o's message of Fri, 24 Mar 89 17:17:17 EST <8903242217.AA23325@OLIVER.MIT.EDU>

> However, there should be a good way to pipe a message into a random
> program, with out having to resort to exec echo "$message"....

Since Barr3y isn't here to push Btalk :-), I'll point out that
rZephyr would handle this nicely...  :-)

- Rhu

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