On Thu, 2011-08-11 at 11:05 -0700, Joe Zeff wrote:
> On 08/11/2011 10:39 AM, Frank Cox wrote:
> > On Thu, 11 Aug 2011 10:38:07 -0430
> > Patrick O'Callaghan wrote:
> >
> >> Besides which, a shell script named "a.out" would arouse my suspicions.
> >> Although not illegal, I would regard it as an attempted Trojan.
> >
> > a.out is the default name of the executable file that's created by  C 
> > compilers
> > on Unix systems when a filename is not specifically requested on the
> > commandline.
> >
> 
> True.  However, there's no good reason that I can think of to use that 
> name for a shell script, and that's what Patrick O'Callaghan was writing 
> about.

Indeed.

poc

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