Return-Path: Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S1161110AbWBARBc (ORCPT ); Wed, 1 Feb 2006 12:01:32 -0500 Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org id S1161111AbWBARBc (ORCPT ); Wed, 1 Feb 2006 12:01:32 -0500 Received: from mail.gmx.net ([213.165.64.21]:44443 "HELO mail.gmx.net") by vger.kernel.org with SMTP id S1161110AbWBARBb (ORCPT ); Wed, 1 Feb 2006 12:01:31 -0500 X-Authenticated: #428038 Date: Wed, 1 Feb 2006 18:01:21 +0100 From: Matthias Andree To: Joerg Schilling Cc: acahalan@gmail.com, linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org Subject: Re: CD writing in future Linux try #2 Message-ID: <20060201170121.GA13559@merlin.emma.line.org> Mail-Followup-To: Joerg Schilling , acahalan@gmail.com, linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org References: <200601302043.56615.diablod3@gmail.com> <20060130.174705.15703464.davem@davemloft.net> <20060131.031817.85883571.davem@davemloft.net> <787b0d920601312049n313364a1q8a41e10c3cda98e0@mail.gmail.com> <43E0E37F.nail46311EZ49@burner> MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Disposition: inline In-Reply-To: <43E0E37F.nail46311EZ49@burner> X-PGP-Key: http://home.pages.de/~mandree/keys/GPGKEY.asc User-Agent: Mutt/1.5.11 X-Y-GMX-Trusted: 0 Sender: linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org X-Mailing-List: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org Content-Length: 768 Lines: 20 Joerg Schilling schrieb am 2006-02-01: > > Forking means dealing with a giant pile of messy and ugly code. > > The coding conventions are... interesting... and this code has > > to run setuid. One had better be really careful making changes. > > Most people are clueless about setuid code. > > The original code demonstarates that suid root is not needed > if you run on an operating system that offers the needed features (e.g. > Solaris). That's old news, no need to repost this every other hour. -- Matthias Andree - 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/