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- Path: sparky!uunet!tis.com!mjr
- From: mjr@tis.com (Marcus J Ranum)
- Newsgroups: comp.unix.ultrix
- Subject: Re: strange path hardwired in awk
- Date: 29 Jan 1993 03:40:53 GMT
- Organization: Trusted Information Systems, Inc.
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- Message-ID: <1ka905INNip0@sol.tis.com>
- References: <1993Jan28.121515.3498@black.ox.ac.uk>
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- Keywords: awk
-
- >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?
-
- Well, pwj is Peter Weinberger, the 'w' in "awk". I'd
- be very surprised if this wasn't some kind of joke, though, since
- a load of people have picked over the awk code since its inception.
- I vaguely recall someone telling me that the version of nawk that
- ships with ULTRIX is from Mortise Kern Systems, not the original
- AT&T version, though I never bothered to check.
-
- mjr.
-