Matt Grochowalski - Slashdot User

Comment Re: Preempting dumb discussion (Score 1) 318

by Matt Grochowalski on Thursday September 25, 2014 @11:13PM (#47999849) Attached to: Flurry of Scans Hint That Bash Vulnerability Could Already Be In the Wild

Linux by itself isn't an OS. POSIX (Portable Operating System Interface) includes the C library and utilities, including the shell. I'd certainly consider Bash part of the OS (for distros that use it). Same for the SSL library. These things are certainly considered part of the OS in Windows.

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