Re: Problem cat'ing in terminal: buffer overflow?
Fuck off Ethan. OK?
> From: Ethan Benson <erbenson@alaska.net>
> Date: Sat, 10 Nov 2001 21:19:40 -0900
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> Subject: Re: Problem cat'ing in terminal: buffer overflow?
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> what part of:
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> *don't* you understand?
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> On Sat, Nov 10, 2001 at 10:07:11PM -0800, Laurent de Segur wrote:
>> What's your point?
>
> that you don't know what your talking about.
>
>>> From: Ethan Benson <erbenson@alaska.net>
>>> Date: Sat, 10 Nov 2001 19:18:30 -0900
>>> To: debian-powerpc@lists.debian.org
>>> Subject: Re: Problem cat'ing in terminal: buffer overflow?
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>>> On Sat, Nov 10, 2001 at 11:33:08AM -0800, Laurent de Segur wrote:
>>>> Hi,
>>>>
>>>> I recently noticed that cat'ing a bin file in the terminal will render this
>>>> terminal unusable. Here is a short reproducible test case :
>>>>
>>>> $cat /sbin/mkfs.ext2
>>>>
>>>> Garbage is populating the output (which is ok in case of non-ascii chars),
>>>> but when it's done, the label before the prompt sign and everything typed
>>>> is
>>>> just garbage too. I run 2.4.15 but I've seen this on prior 2.4.x builts.
>>>
>>> you have obviously never used a unix system before.
>>>
>>> --
>>> Ethan Benson
>>> http://www.alaska.net/~erbenson/
>>>
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