scs@adam.pika.mit.edu (Steve Summit) (01/21/89)
In article <5861@medusa.cs.purdue.edu> spaf@cs.purdue.edu (Gene Spafford) writes: >Most people don't seem to know about "preserve" so I just thought >I'd mention it. While you're playing with expreserve, check to see if it's still setuid, and using something like popen("mail", "w") to inform the user of its actions. If so, make sure you don't accidentally leave an executable shell script named "mail" in the current directory, and then induce a vi crash :-) ... This was fixed in 4.2bsd. Steve Summit scs@adam.pika.mit.edu