Return-Path: Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id ; Thu, 1 Nov 2001 22:44:48 -0500 Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org id ; Thu, 1 Nov 2001 22:44:40 -0500 Received: from james.kalifornia.com ([208.179.59.2]:47212 "EHLO james.kalifornia.com") by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id ; Thu, 1 Nov 2001 22:44:22 -0500 Message-ID: <3BE21607.2080903@blue-labs.org> Date: Thu, 01 Nov 2001 22:41:59 -0500 From: David Ford User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (X11; U; Linux i686; en-US; rv:0.9.5+) Gecko/20011101 X-Accept-Language: en-us MIME-Version: 1.0 To: Rik van Riel CC: Nick LeRoy , "Jeffrey W. Baker" , linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org Subject: Re: on exit xterm totally wrecks linux 2.4.11 to 2.4.14-pre6 (unkillable processes) In-Reply-To: Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Sender: linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org X-Mailing-List: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org You should censor those words ;) You wouldn't want us Americans knowing about it. "The should be fixed." David Rik van Riel wrote: >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. > >Rik > - 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/