Return-Path: Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S262420AbVA0BTu (ORCPT ); Wed, 26 Jan 2005 20:19:50 -0500 Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org id S262407AbVA0AEX (ORCPT ); Wed, 26 Jan 2005 19:04:23 -0500 Received: from speedy.student.utwente.nl ([130.89.163.131]:4228 "EHLO speedy.student.utwente.nl") by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S262420AbVAZUuS (ORCPT ); Wed, 26 Jan 2005 15:50:18 -0500 Date: Wed, 26 Jan 2005 21:49:57 +0100 From: Sytse Wielinga To: John Richard Moser Cc: Linus Torvalds , Bill Davidsen , Valdis.Kletnieks@vt.edu, Arjan van de Ven , Ingo Molnar , Christoph Hellwig , Dave Jones , Andrew Morton , marcelo.tosatti@cyclades.com, Greg KH , chrisw@osdl.org, Alan Cox , Kernel Mailing List Subject: Re: thoughts on kernel security issues Message-ID: <20050126204957.GI23182@speedy.student.utwente.nl> Mail-Followup-To: John Richard Moser , Linus Torvalds , Bill Davidsen , Valdis.Kletnieks@vt.edu, Arjan van de Ven , Ingo Molnar , Christoph Hellwig , Dave Jones , Andrew Morton , marcelo.tosatti@cyclades.com, Greg KH , chrisw@osdl.org, Alan Cox , Kernel Mailing List References: <41F6816D.1020306@tmr.com> <41F68975.8010405@comcast.net> <41F691D6.8040803@comcast.net> <41F6A5F8.5030100@comcast.net> <20050126160620.GE23182@speedy.student.utwente.nl> <41F7EFF4.40303@comcast.net> <20050126202637.GH23182@speedy.student.utwente.nl> <41F7FFEC.5080303@comcast.net> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Disposition: inline In-Reply-To: <41F7FFEC.5080303@comcast.net> User-Agent: Mutt/1.5.6+20040907i Sender: linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org X-Mailing-List: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org Content-Length: 1116 Lines: 20 On Wed, Jan 26, 2005 at 03:39:08PM -0500, John Richard Moser wrote: > > I'm sorry about the rant. Besides, your comment ('Wasn't talking about > > bugfixes') makes some sense, too. You were actually talking about two patches > > though, which close two closely related holes. Linus was talking about the > > possible bugs caused by either one of these two patches, which may be totally > > unrelated to the thing they try to fix. > Sorry, I just woke up, this thread has me under a lot of stress. I > should go back to arguing things that have some end goal to them, rather > than arguing simply because I have nothing better to do. Yes.. it seems that the thread has gone in a rather pointless direction, noone seems to know exactly what it was about anymore but everyone keeps carrying huge emotions all over the place. Let's just forget it and move on :-) Sytse - To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-kernel" in the body of a message to majordomo@vger.kernel.org More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html Please read the FAQ at http://www.tux.org/lkml/