Re: The ls command

[Vincent Lefevre <vincent@vinc17.net>]

On 2025-10-31 10:14:06 -0700, Michael Paoli wrote:
> On Fri, Oct 31, 2025 at 6:42 AM Nicolas George <george@nsup.org> wrote:
> > Vincent Lefevre (HE12025-10-31):
> > > But that's potentially insecure as this could yield arbitrary
> > > escape sequences to the terminal, which could do bad things.
> > That has been disabled for eons.
> 
> Some of us still have terminal(s) that are "eons" old.

And one can make xterm on trixie (not that old) crash:

  xterm -k8 -e 'printf "\x9a\x85\x08"; sleep 2'

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