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At 04:46 PM 30/01/02 +0100, Daniel Phillips wrote:
>On January 30, 2002 04:28 pm, Rasmus Andersen wrote:
> > Somehow, I totally forgot the security disclaimer for some of
> > the points. Obviously, mindlessly patching a makefile and
> > executing it would be a Bad Idea. If no satisfying solution
> > to this can be found, this (execute/compile) step could be
> > foregone.
> >
> > Thanks to Tommy Faasen for raising this point.
>
>I'd say, don't try to run it, just see if it applies cleanly.
>
>Speaking of security, we can't expect Matti to take care of blocking spam
>on the patch lists the way he does on lkml, so that is going to have to
>be handled, or the system will fall apart.  Well, spammers are not going
>to be bright enough to send correctly formed patches that apply without
>rejects I hope, so maybe that is a non-problem.

Possibly, but then it'll reply to the spammer and you'll get bounces left 
and right. Perhaps it's a simple case that the patcher submitting will have 
to have registered the email address before submitting their patch. Only 
needs to be done once (not every time a patch is submitted, that's mad!), 
and weeds out the noise.


Stuart Young - sgy@amc.com.au
(aka Cefiar) - cefiar1@optushome.com.au

[All opinions expressed in the above message are my]
[own and not necessarily the views of my employer..]

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