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Subject: Re: More modutils: It's probably worse.
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Olaf Kirch wrote:

> sure request_module _does_not_ accept funky module names. Why allow
> people to shoot themselves (and, by extension, all other Linux users
> out there) in the foot?

I thought that was the whole purpose of Unix/Linux?

-b

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