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Re:Backdoor in upstream xz/liblzma leading to SSH server com... by msm_ on Friday March 29, 2024 @06:29PM (#39869691)
Gnu yes is actually pretty bloated. It's 130 lines of code for something so trivial [1]! ;)

[1] https://github.com/coreutils/coreutils/blob/master/src/yes.c

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Re:Backdoor in upstream xz/liblzma leading to SSH server com... by pixelbeat on Saturday March 30, 2024 @12:17PM (#39876211)
yes(1) is the standard unix way of generating repeated data. It's good to do this as quickly as possible. I really don't understand why so many get annoyed with this code. 130 lines isn't that complicated in the scheme of things.
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