From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 From: ron@ronnatalie.com (Ron Natalie) Date: Fri, 12 May 2017 17:29:16 -0400 Subject: [TUHS] The evolution of Unix facilities and architecture In-Reply-To: References: <201705121843.v4CIhE68027515@coolidge.cs.Dartmouth.EDU> Message-ID: <022a01d2cb66$cfa7f780$6ef7e680$@ronnatalie.com> Allegedly at one point Dennis Mumaugh over at the NSA had a list of UNIX security bugs that became classified. Mike Muuss (and the rest of us BRLers) decided not to request a copy because we figured we’d be better off not being constrained by knowing some bug we were disseminating information on (to other system adminsitrators) was classified. We did have a little informal meeting with Dennis in the hall and ran through our list of known issues at the time. My favorite isn’t so much a UNIX bug but a PDP-11 hardware bug. It’s just that I think it may be impossible on a DEC operating system to create a program that manifests it (you have to fill your entire address space with SPL instructions). -------------- next part -------------- An HTML attachment was scrubbed... URL: