On 6/7/13 10:48 AM, Gerard Seibert wrote:
> On Fri, 7 Jun 2013 10:19:44 -0400
> Greg Wooledge articulated:
>
>> Yes it can. You're talking about adding a ridiculous amount of extra
>> checking and performance penalty to try to avoid users shooting
>> themselves in the foot *on Unix*.
>
> The job of the OS is not to prevent a user from shooting themselves in
> the foot, but rather to deliver the bullet as efficiently as possible.
Bash will not stop a user from shooting himself in the foot. If asked, it
will obediently load the gun.
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