On Fri, 23 Jul 1999, Pawel Wilk wrote: > If you want your system safe, > don't look as root > at manual page. The dangerous instructions (.pso, .open/.opena) are probably GNU troff (aka groff) specific. Little (if any) functionality would be lost if the were removed for the sake of safety. Nevertheless, this does not imply other implementations must be absolutely safe: for example, there are probably ways to abuse .so as well (.so /dev/zero, .so /dev/kmem, .so some-system-fifo...). --Pavel Kankovsky aka Peak [ Boycott Microsoft--http://www.vcnet.com/bms ] "Resistance is futile. Open your source code and prepare for assimilation."
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