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From: Dragos Ruiu <dr@kyx.net>
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To: Robert Watson <rwatson@FreeBSD.org>,
	"Brian F. Feldman" <green@FreeBSD.org>
Subject: Re: ncurses buffer overflows (fwd)
Date: Tue, 10 Oct 2000 23:46:52 -0700
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On Tue, 10 Oct 2000, Robert Watson wrote:
>The general gyst is the following: shells
> (especially when running in single-user mode for some reason) will tend to
> execute shell scripts themselves, rather than using the interpreter
> defined in the file (not in multi-user mode?). 

This behaviour seems to make sense for single user mode,
where you may have dropped down to with intent of repairing
things.  Not all the partitions may be mounted and those
other shells may not be available.... 

--dr


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