From owner-freebsd-questions Tue Oct 5 3:32:56 1999 Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from news-ma.rhein-neckar.de (news-ma.rhein-neckar.de [193.197.90.3]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 44EA5155A1 for ; Tue, 5 Oct 1999 03:32:27 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from daemon@bigeye.rhein-neckar.de) Received: from bigeye.rhein-neckar.de (uucp@localhost) by news-ma.rhein-neckar.de (8.8.8/8.8.8) with bsmtp id MAA03261 for freebsd-questions@freebsd.org; Tue, 5 Oct 1999 12:32:26 +0200 (CEST) (envelope-from daemon@bigeye.rhein-neckar.de) Received: (from daemon@localhost) by bigeye.rhein-neckar.de (8.9.3/8.9.3) id LAA57457 for freebsd-questions@freebsd.org; Tue, 5 Oct 1999 11:11:18 +0200 (CEST) (envelope-from daemon) From: naddy@mips.rhein-neckar.de (Christian Weisgerber) Subject: Re: recursive cat weirdness Date: 5 Oct 1999 11:11:17 +0200 Message-ID: <7tcfbl$1o39$1@bigeye.rhein-neckar.de> References: To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Sender: owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG 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 To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message