Date: Mon, 30 Apr 2001 12:34:15 +0300 From: Panagiotis Astithas <past@netmode.ntua.gr> To: Valentin Nechayev <netch@iv.nn.kiev.ua> Cc: Ted Faber <faber@lunabase.org>, stable@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: tail Message-ID: <20010430123414.C88460@netmode.ece.ntua.gr> In-Reply-To: <20010430110352.A646@iv.nn.kiev.ua>; from netch@iv.nn.kiev.ua on Mon, Apr 30, 2001 at 11:03:52AM %2B0300 References: <Pine.BSF.4.21.0104301632200.43352-100000@lists.unixathome.org> <KPECIILENDDLPCNIMLOFOEOICCAA.juha@saarinen.org> <20010429222205.A29058@praxis.lunabase.org> <20010430110352.A646@iv.nn.kiev.ua>
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On Mon, Apr 30, 2001 at 11:03:52AM +0300, Valentin Nechayev wrote: > Can you please prove nesessarity of such behavior, as really useful examples > of cat/tail of directory, or an example of needed compatibility? One use I can think of is to list the contents of a directory in order to make a quick-and-dirty assessment of whether ls has been replaced by a trojan or not. I know that cat/tail could have been replaced too, but _if_ you see different results you know something fishy is going on in a couple of seconds. -past To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-stable" in the body of the message
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