From: ron minnich <rminnich@gmail.com>
To: Skip Tavakkolian <fariborz.t@gmail.com>
Cc: The Eunuchs Hysterical Society <tuhs@tuhs.org>
Subject: [TUHS] Re: shell escapes in utilities
Date: Tue, 1 Aug 2023 08:30:41 -0700 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <CAP6exYLpMdPHvj0VuY+qm_S3x9fY0hhf3SantTf-+QHCRZCA-w@mail.gmail.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <CAA1C+h3DVGd_BZB=0eaQrvnJrOdf91c3Ey_N+KwwgJ8oKQQ3Yw@mail.gmail.com>
I'm ok with things like ed, I'm more thinking of situations where
people would (e.g.) use xdvi to view a file, and Bad Things Happened.
I don't think ed counts, unless we're that worried about scripts.
at least for me, the xdvi thing was a real shock.
On Tue, Aug 1, 2023 at 7:29 AM Skip Tavakkolian <fariborz.t@gmail.com> wrote:
>
> Looking at sources on TUHS, it looks like ed had it as early as V5:
> https://minnie.tuhs.org/cgi-bin/utree.pl?file=V5/usr/source/s1/ed1.s
>
> On Mon, Jul 31, 2023, 10:48 PM ron minnich <rminnich@gmail.com> wrote:
>>
>> I got to wondering, based on the sendmail discussions, how many shell
>> escapes have appeared over the years?
>>
>> uucp
>> sendmail
>> xdvi : "The "allowShell" option enables the shell escape in PostScript specials"
>>
>> There must be a lot of them, however.
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2023-08-01 15:31 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 25+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2023-08-01 5:47 [TUHS] " ron minnich
2023-08-01 11:38 ` [TUHS] " Leah Neukirchen
2023-08-01 12:31 ` G. Branden Robinson
2023-08-01 20:33 ` Dave Horsfall
2023-08-01 20:40 ` arnold
2023-08-01 14:29 ` Skip Tavakkolian
2023-08-01 15:30 ` ron minnich [this message]
2023-08-01 18:43 ` Ron Natalie
2023-08-01 18:55 ` Niklas Karlsson
2023-08-01 20:48 ` Steffen Nurpmeso
2023-08-01 21:11 ` Ron Natalie
2023-08-01 21:52 ` Steffen Nurpmeso
2023-08-01 21:13 ` Niklas Karlsson
2023-08-01 21:19 ` Dave Horsfall
2023-08-02 3:01 ` Grant Taylor via TUHS
2023-08-02 3:42 ` Niklas Karlsson
2023-08-02 2:59 ` Grant Taylor via TUHS
2023-08-02 10:49 ` Rich Salz
2023-08-02 14:49 ` Grant Taylor via TUHS
2023-08-02 14:20 ` Clem Cole
2023-09-19 16:56 ` Ori Bernstein
2023-09-19 17:04 ` ron minnich
2023-08-01 15:36 ` Phil Budne
2023-08-01 15:37 ` Clem Cole
2023-08-01 15:37 ` Grant Taylor via TUHS
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