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WebbOS being rebuilt
After some time of inactivity, we have decided to take up this project again, rebuilding it from scratch. We are starting over, redoing EVERYTHING. Maybe within a couple months, we may even have a bootable system. We're going to be getting the FreeBSD kernel source, and the FreeBSD gcc/gdb system brought over.
The main interface for the system is being built currently. I do have people working on getting the FreeBSD kernel source working while I get the main shell (built in).
Thanks for reading,
lattera (project lead)
2002-12-10 15:14:11 UTC by webbsytecomp
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MAJOR flaw with UNIX
There is a MAJOR flaw with every distrobution of UNIX. If you change your HOME environment variable to "/root" you can succcessfully change to that directory and read (not write) files.
In summary, you can "spy" on the root user. You can get all the files you want.
The newer version (not uploaded, yet) will include functions to change your environment variables, however, we did not intend for the code to be used improperly.
Thank you for reading this.
PS - You can change the permissions on the "/root" folder (if you're super user) so that this flaw doesn't work.
2002-07-29 16:20:00 UTC by webbsytecomp
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Base 1 Patch 2
Base 1 Patch 2 should come out within the next month. It will include:
Tokenizing (command-line arguements)
Shell processes
Spawned processes
Major bug fix (ctrl+D makes the mini-shell go into an endless loop)
Better reading/writing
The "ls" command should get stats now.
Access to the "login" and "su" programs!
2002-07-22 15:17:17 UTC by webbsytecomp
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Big move to come
Shawn Webb will be moving houses this next coming week.
It is during this time that he will not be able to develop, until his computers are unpacked.
However, Steven should still be able to develop, depending on what is going on in his world.
2002-07-19 01:36:42 UTC by webbsytecomp
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WebbOS Base 1 Patch 1 released
The dev team has noticed some warnings, bugs, and other items that we have fixed.
Added some code to "ls"
Fixed the return warnings.
Added some text to "makefile", you may want to check that out before running.
2002-07-13 17:14:13 UTC by webbsytecomp
