[nylug-talk] Cute bash feature (redirect-network)

[Michael Bacarella]

> I'd rather say it's the complexity that is the enemy of security.
> At least for this particular feature, it could be separated and
> controlled independently without losing much convenience. Of
> course it's always difficult to find a good way of separation or
> decomposition of functions (and this sort of problems can be often
> political rather than technical.)  But blindly fusing many
> functions into one big opaque binary seems very Microsoft-ish (or
> Emacs-ish?), which makes me afraid of potential bugs/security
> flaws.

Or vim-ish?

Convenience is not an enemy.  TMTOWTDI is a good thing.

Why should tar make me care that I told it zxvf instead of jxvf when
it can full well auto-detect and handle either?

I thought the future was now.  I do agree that the feature ought to
go away under bash -r