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- From: mbeattie@black.ox.ac.uk (Malcolm Beattie)
- Newsgroups: comp.unix.ultrix
- Subject: strange path hardwired in awk
- Keywords: awk
- Message-ID: <1993Jan28.121515.3498@black.ox.ac.uk>
- Date: 28 Jan 93 12:15:15 GMT
- Organization: Oxford University Computing Service, 13 Banbury Rd, Oxford, U
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- Originator: mbeattie@black
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- While looking through a more than usually verbose audit log,
- I noticed that awk attempts to open /crp/pjw/awkhist/awkhist.
- `strings /bin/awk' shows that this path is hardwired into
- the binary. Does anyone know why or what this is?
-
- This is Ultrix 4.2a on a DEC5500. The same string is not
- present under SunOS 4.1 which is the other awk I checked.
-
- --Malcolm
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