RE: Favorite Urban Myth

From: Schauss, Peter <SCHAUPE_at_mail.northgrum.com>
Date: Thu, 11 Apr 2002 12:48:24 -0800
Message-ID: <F001.0044266B.20020411124824@fatcity.com>

I'll add mine:

We had a developer on a Sun box who somehow managed to set all of his source files to be executable. On that particular version of Solaris, when you went into filemgr and double click on an executable file, filemgr executed it as a shell script. As it happened, the standard headers on our
source files contained some sccs keywords which caused sccs to insert the source file name into the header as the first thing on one line.

So, when filemgr spawned a shell to execute the source file and encountered the name of the source file, it tried to execute the source file again... Within a few minutes we had a rather large number of processes spawning other
processes faster than anyone could kill them. The only solution was to delete the offending source file. Eventually we managed to get this guy assigned to another department.

Peter Schauss
Northrop Grumman Corporation
516-346-3148
schaupe_at_mail.northgrum.com
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