Re:The tale of aux.c
by gkya on Tuesday September 26, 2017 @04:23AM
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You don't really put videos into a program's source tree. Also I don't think any modern Unix-like OS would overweite a file with a core dump no matter what is the name, and doubt that ancient versions did so too. Having the same set of device files under every directory is quite a different thing.
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Re:The tale of aux.c
by inopinatus on Tuesday September 26, 2017 @07:31AM
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Actually, not only did they do exactly that, they could even be induced to do so through a symlimk, with hilarious results.
I'm really curious about them hilarious results now :)
Actually, when I just want to test something silly, I often just go to ~, make a file test.c or something, write the short test program, and run `gcc -o test test.c`. It's not that rare to have videos in your home directory, and if I had one named a.out, and forgot the -o option, it'd get overwritten.
Not saying it's remotely likely, just saying that having video files in a program's source tree isn't the only way it could happen :)