On Wed, Apr 06, 2005 at 06:12:08PM -0400, Nick Mathewson wrote: > On Wed, Apr 06, 2005 at 09:34:11PM +0200, ssc@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx wrote: > > until tor;do true;done > > Watch out! In the past, people doing things like this have wound up > hosing the Tor network pretty badly: Suppose that, for some reason, > your configuration becomes broken or your software becomes obsolete. > Suppose that this brokenness or obsolescence is only apparent after > your software has connected to another Tor server. If this happens, > then the tight loop you give above will create a tool that hammers the > Tor network in a tight loop---and hopefully, that's not what you > intended. Well, an obsolete tor exits with 0, so the loop breaks. -- Ewige Blumenkraft! )|( ssc www.unix-geek.info Stephan Schmieder ssc@xxxxxxx safeguard this letter, it may be an IMPORTANT DOCUMENT
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