Subject: Re: CRITICAL ** Holes in default cron jobs ** CRITICAL
To: Giles Lean <giles@nemeton.com.au>
From: Jason Thorpe <thorpej@nas.nasa.gov>
List: current-users
Date: 01/02/1997 00:48:50
On Mon, 30 Dec 1996 12:23:12 +1100 
 Giles Lean <giles@nemeton.com.au> wrote:

 > 1. shell metacharacter vulerability of 'ls ... | sh' code
 > 
 >    This can be fixed by using 'find ... -print0 | xargs -0 ls ...',
 >    but the current NetBSD find and xargs programs don't support these
 >    options.

What, precicely, do these new options do?  They're only valuable
if they're necessary (i.e. why add a new option if you don't have do? :-)

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