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Date:      5 Oct 1999 11:11:17 +0200
From:      naddy@mips.rhein-neckar.de (Christian Weisgerber)
To:        freebsd-questions@freebsd.org
Subject:   Re: recursive cat weirdness
Message-ID:  <7tcfbl$1o39$1@bigeye.rhein-neckar.de>
References:  <Pine.LNX.4.02A.9910041658360.19654-100000@cobalt.novagate.net>

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<x@asdf.com> wrote:

> cat file1 file2 > file2

cat /dev/zero > file

> I guess this is not a big deal but if someone wanted to be a jerk they
> could just make two little files and eat up your disk space and CPU until
> you noticed it running.

You mean, they could just eat up their disk quota.

-- 
Christian "naddy" Weisgerber                  naddy@mips.rhein-neckar.de



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