Beware xargs security holes

[Robert E. Stampfli]

> In any case, I've yet to see how "a malicious user [could]
> remove every file on the system."

No user, malicious or not, can remove "every file on the system."
In fact, I contend it is impossible to remove the last instance of
an executable that contains the unlink() system call.
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