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Date: Wed, 16 Jan 2002 12:14:31 +0100
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Scott Schwartz wrote:
> A previous edition's malloc used a pipe with a byte in it as a semaphore.

I wrote a POP client/daemon on unix that kept the password in a pipe
to minimise the probability of it ending up in a core dump.

Of course on plan 9 and inferno there are no cores -- another plus.