Return-Path: Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S1750775AbVJFJzF (ORCPT ); Thu, 6 Oct 2005 05:55:05 -0400 Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org id S1750778AbVJFJzE (ORCPT ); Thu, 6 Oct 2005 05:55:04 -0400 Received: from smtp.terra.es ([213.4.129.129]:724 "EHLO tsmtp2.mail.isp") by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S1750775AbVJFJzD convert rfc822-to-8bit (ORCPT ); Thu, 6 Oct 2005 05:55:03 -0400 Date: Thu, 6 Oct 2005 11:53:39 +0200 From: grundig@teleline.es To: Luke Kenneth Casson Leighton Cc: leimy2k@gmail.com, 7eggert@gmx.de, nix@esperi.org.uk, marc@perkel.com, linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org Subject: Re: what's next for the linux kernel? Message-Id: <20051006115339.6fd736a0.grundig@teleline.es> In-Reply-To: <20051005232330.GS10538@lkcl.net> References: <4TiWy-4HQ-3@gated-at.bofh.it> <4U0XH-3Gp-39@gated-at.bofh.it> <87k6gsjalu.fsf@amaterasu.srvr.nix> <3e1162e60510050755l590a696bx655eb0b7ac05aab6@mail.gmail.com> <3e1162e60510050941l55485cbdgf6135e314a015d8f@mail.gmail.com> <20051005232330.GS10538@lkcl.net> X-Mailer: Sylpheed version 2.1.1 (GTK+ 2.8.3; i486-pc-linux-gnu) Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-15 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 8BIT Sender: linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org X-Mailing-List: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org Content-Length: 656 Lines: 20 El Thu, 6 Oct 2005 00:23:30 +0100, Luke Kenneth Casson Leighton escribi?: > there are a lot of legacy apps that no-one wants to modify to get them > to create/read /tmp/x-windows/.X11-unix. What's the point of caring about security for a legacy app if nobody is going to fix it if a security problema arises? http://packages.debian.org/unstable/admin/libpam-tmpdir is good enought IMO - 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/