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Followup on dougie's saber bug

daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (kkkken@ATHENA.MIT.EDU)
Mon Apr 30 04:15:31 1990

From: kkkken@ATHENA.MIT.EDU
Date: Mon, 30 Apr 90 04:15:10 -0400
To: bugs@ATHENA.MIT.EDU

This is truly amazing.

Saber's `cd' command simply does not do a cd.

Using dougie's UID, with no tickets or tokens, I did the following set
of `enlightening' things:

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/afs/athena.mit.edu/user/d/dougie/100/ps8: head -1 plane.c
#include "aircraft.h"
/afs/athena.mit.edu/user/d/dougie/100/ps8: saber

                        Saber-C - Version 2.1

           Copyright (C) 1986, 1989 by Saber Software, Inc.

For customer service, call 1-800-669-9165 or use the 'email' command.

        This software is licensed for use only at the
        Massachusetts Institute of Technology

Attaching: /lib/libc.a
1 -> pwd
/afs/athena.mit.edu/user/d/dougie/100/ps8
2 -> load plane.c
Cannot open '/afs/athena.mit.edu/user/d/dougie/100/ps8/plane.c'.
3 -> cd ..
4 -> pwd
/afs/athena.mit.edu/user/d/dougie/100/ps8
5 -> cd ../..
wd now: '/afs/athena.mit.edu/user/d/dougie'
6 -> quit
/afs/athena.mit.edu/user/d/dougie/100/ps8: cd 100
~/100
~/100: saber

                        Saber-C - Version 2.1

           Copyright (C) 1986, 1989 by Saber Software, Inc.

For customer service, call 1-800-669-9165 or use the 'email' command.

        This software is licensed for use only at the
        Massachusetts Institute of Technology

Attaching: /lib/libc.a
1 -> pwd
/afs/athena.mit.edu/user/d/dougie/100
2 -> cd ..
wd now: '/afs/athena.mit.edu/user/d/dougie'
3 -> cd 100
4 -> pwd
/afs/athena.mit.edu/user/d/dougie
5 -> cd /afs/athena/user/k/kkkken
wd now: '/afs/athena.mit.edu/user/k/kkkken'
6 -> cd 100
wd now: '/afs/athena.mit.edu/user/k/kkkken/100'
7 -> cd /afs/athena/user/d/dougie
wd now: '/afs/athena.mit.edu/user/d/dougie'
8 -> chdir("100");
Linking from '/lib/libc.a' ... Linking completed.
(int) 0
wd now: '/afs/athena.mit.edu/user/d/dougie/100'
9 -> chdir("ps8");
(int) 0
wd now: '/afs/athena.mit.edu/user/d/dougie/100/ps8'
10 -> fopen("plane.c","r");
Linking from '/lib/libc.a' ...... Linking completed.
(int) 733500
11 -> chdir("..");
(int) 0
wd now: '/afs/athena.mit.edu/user/d/dougie/100'
12 -> cd ps8
13 -> pwd
/afs/athena.mit.edu/user/d/dougie/100
14 -> chdir("ps8");
(int) 0
wd now: '/afs/athena.mit.edu/user/d/dougie/100/ps8'

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Hello!!!  Mr. Computer!

	-Ken

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