Suppose that you want to use some custom method of authenticating andauthorizing NFS mounts, and that your fileservers are Solaris 10 systems(although the same general approach could probably work elsewhere).Further suppose that you don't have the source to mountd , or at leastdon't want to modify it for various sensible reasons. Fortunately,there is an evil hack that you can commit that will let you do whateverauthorization checks that you need.

(When thinking about all of this, remember that NFS mount

Seeing this todayreminded me of a relatively obscure feature and counter-feature in xterm and similar imitators like gnome-terminal and konsole.

First, the feature (sometimes 'feature'): in order to let text modeprograms still have clickable objects, xterm lets programs steal leftmouse (button-1) clicks; instead of selecting text, the program getsescape sequences that tell it about the click and it can do whatever itwants with them. The most obvious application is text-mode web browserslike links