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From: Richard Gooch <rgooch@ras.ucalgary.ca>
To: Rik van Riel <riel@conectiva.com.br>
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Subject: Re: on exit xterm  totally wrecks linux 2.4.11 to 2.4.14-pre6
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Rik van Riel writes:
> On Thu, 1 Nov 2001, Nick LeRoy wrote:
> 
> > Yeah, I think that I know what I'm talking about.  The question
> > was:  Should devfs be fixed, or should xterm be fixed.
> 
> If any random malicious user can crash the machine through
> devfs, I think the answer to this question is quite obvious.
> 
> The security hole should be fixed.

Agreed. I will.

				Regards,

					Richard....
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