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> In any case, I added a secret preference to do it the right way It's harder to do these sort of guerrilla things when every line is code-reviewed. Or maybe y
by pradn 2y ago
> In any case, I added a secret preference to do it the right way
It's harder to do these sort of guerrilla things when every line is code-reviewed. Or maybe you snuck it past your peer?
- salgernon 2y agoThere wasn't a lot of code review going around our group in 1991 - but you're absolutely right that it would be harder to get away with today. There are a lot of hidden knobs in various places across various systems, and they are a potential liability since they're frequently untested and may even be a vector for an exploit... sudo dtrace -qn 'pid$target::getenv:entry { printf("getenv ( %s )\n", copyinstr(arg0)); }' -c "/bin/ls -l"