Researchers disclose a 55-year-old vulnerability affecting macOS, Windows and Linux. Exploitation is trivial and requires no special tools. No patch exists.
First of all, it pleases me greatly that you appreciated the palindromic nature of it. That pleased me as I wrote it (you know how you can write something and realize that it’s unintentionally great? lol)
Second of all, it pleases me that you tried it. lol. I was originally a DOS/Windows guy, so while I know a tiny bit of the Deep Magic, it’s safe to say I’m a fairly average user on the Linux side of things, though I do love learning.
How brilliant. Just like with rm / -rf protection that you can override, but must override… I had actually assumed (without thought) that sudo and apt were built-in commands like dir and cd in DOS, so there wouldn’t be anything to remove. But makes sense that everything is a package.
Today, thanks to you, I learned the most delightful thing. Thank you. <3
I mean, pretty much. Or rather, everything is in a package. Back in the old days they were called source distributions or .tar.gzs and you compiled everything yourself. Gentoo, for example, still does everything that way, but uses the name ‘package’ anyway.
The coreutils package, or something like it, contains multiple commands that a bare bones, command-line-only system would need, but some things are built into the shells. e.g. cd is always shell-based. echo may or may not be. ls (dir) is in coreutils.
There are also things like busybox that, in a single executable from a single package, contains a stripped-down version of everything in coreutils, a shell and a handful of other things too.
First of all, it pleases me greatly that you appreciated the palindromic nature of it. That pleased me as I wrote it (you know how you can write something and realize that it’s unintentionally great? lol)
Second of all, it pleases me that you tried it. lol. I was originally a DOS/Windows guy, so while I know a tiny bit of the Deep Magic, it’s safe to say I’m a fairly average user on the Linux side of things, though I do love learning.
How brilliant. Just like with
rm / -rfprotection that you can override, but must override… I had actually assumed (without thought) thatsudoandaptwere built-in commands likedirandcdin DOS, so there wouldn’t be anything to remove. But makes sense that everything is a package.Today, thanks to you, I learned the most delightful thing. Thank you. <3
I mean, pretty much. Or rather, everything is in a package. Back in the old days they were called source distributions or
.tar.gzs and you compiled everything yourself. Gentoo, for example, still does everything that way, but uses the name ‘package’ anyway.The
coreutilspackage, or something like it, contains multiple commands that a bare bones, command-line-only system would need, but some things are built into the shells. e.g.cdis always shell-based.echomay or may not be.ls(dir) is incoreutils.There are also things like
busyboxthat, in a single executable from a single package, contains a stripped-down version of everything in coreutils, a shell and a handful of other things too.