honey@mailrus.cc.umich.edu (peter honeyman) (11/09/88)
John B. Nagle observes: > ... The knowledge that this person had the opportunity to >tamper with the master source code for UNIX is very worrisome. A major >examination of all AT&T-provided security related code is in order. > > We may not be at the end of this yet. rtm worked in research. e.g., he ported bsd tcp/udp/ip to streams, back when only eighth edition unix had streams. i believe this was the first example of a multiplexing stream handler. it's a pretty neat hack. rtm had access to the master source code as in master race, but did not develop in system v at murray hill. peter