12 Sep
2016
12 Sep
'16
11:49 a.m.
On Sat, 10 Sep 2016, arnold(a)skeeve.com wrote:
Oops - you're right. My organic bit-rot is worse than I thought...
--
Dave Horsfall DTM (VK2KFU) "Those who don't understand security will
suffer."
Correct; if
the exec failed then the invoking shell assumed that it
was a shell script, and spawned a shell to run it.
I think this happened in the "spawned" shell - so the exec would fail and
then this child shell would just run the script.