Subject: "arp -f": Don't DO that, then!
To: None <current-users@sun-lamp.cs.berkeley.edu>
From: Thor Lancelot Simon <tls@panix.com>
List: current-users
Date: 05/29/1994 17:30:12
>While I was at it, I cleaned up arp.c a bit and fixed the documented -f
>flag which was missing from the getopt parsing.
No!
Don't put the -f flag back unless you're very careful about it; it introduces
a security hole which lets anyone who cares to read arbitrary parts of
/dev/kmem...
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