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Re: core symlinks
From: avalon () coombs anu edu au (Darren Reed)
Date: Sun, 11 Sep 1994 13:33:53 +1000 (EST)
It's been mentioned before that core dumps on some systems may fallow symlink and that this can be used to overwrite any file. I was wondering if anyone knows which OS's and versions behave this way.
I've heard it said that you can do interesting things on SGI's when you get a large core dump happening and the bus gets flooded. I've no idea about which version of IRIX... I didn't bother to chase up on details, but someone might like to play around with 50MB (you get the idea of what I mean by large) core dumps and seeing what happens when you attempt other diskio at the same time.
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