Re: /bin/false (was Re: security questions)

[Damian Menscher <menscher@uiuc.edu>]

On Mon, 30 Oct 2000, sena wrote:
> I heard that Jonathan Markevich wrote this on 29/10/00:
> 
> > 32 bytes, huh?  24 for your source above (with spaces).  Might as well
> > compile it yourself.
> >
> Or, as in C the return type of a function defaults to int, we could write:
> 	main(){return 1;}
> even if the compiler whines about it, the source is only 17 bytes long. How
> many (kilo)bytes would be necessary to write that in BASIC? :)

Save a byte:
main(){exit(1);}

But we're pretty far off topic here....

Damian Menscher
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