From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 From: Jan Hudec Subject: Re: RFC: Illegal Characters in File Names Date: Tue, 20 Jul 2004 22:57:33 +0200 Sender: linux-fsdevel-owner@vger.kernel.org Message-ID: <20040720205733.GN3227@vagabond> References: <200407201654.i6KGsF317355@watkins-home.com> <20040720181006.GG12308@parcelfarce.linux.theplanet.co.uk> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: multipart/signed; micalg=pgp-sha1; protocol="application/pgp-signature"; boundary="pP0ycGQONqsnqIMP" Cc: Guy , 'Bryan Henderson' , linux-fsdevel@vger.kernel.org, "'Joseph D. Wagner'" Return-path: Received: from cimice4.lam.cz ([212.71.168.94]:25767 "EHLO vagabond.light.src") by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S266275AbUGTU5o (ORCPT ); Tue, 20 Jul 2004 16:57:44 -0400 To: viro@parcelfarce.linux.theplanet.co.uk Content-Disposition: inline In-Reply-To: <20040720181006.GG12308@parcelfarce.linux.theplanet.co.uk> List-Id: linux-fsdevel.vger.kernel.org --pP0ycGQONqsnqIMP Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Disposition: inline Content-Transfer-Encoding: quoted-printable On Tue, Jul 20, 2004 at 19:10:06 +0100, viro@parcelfarce.linux.theplanet.co= =2Euk wrote: > On Tue, Jul 20, 2004 at 12:54:15PM -0400, Guy wrote: > > You said: > > "It's withholding function from the user because he might abuse it and = hurt=20 > > himself." > >=20 > > I say: > > You say "user", you forget that Linux is a multi user OS. What if anot= her > > user created a file in /tmp that effected another user, or root? > >=20 > > This is a security risk and maybe a bug. This would not be the first b= ug > > that someone depends on! So we stop fixing bugs because of compatibili= ty > > issues? >=20 > What security risk? You mean running applications written by lusers? > That's a serious one, of course, but how would anything short of rm(1) > and forced (re)education of idiots who wrote the crap in question help > it? I agree with this. > BTW, if your terminal is misconfigured badly enough to feed program output > back as input, you really ought to fix it, and not just because of ls(1).= =2E. That means, that the terminal should never respond to any escape sequences sent to it. In reality, it responds to some... ---------------------------------------------------------------------------= ---- Jan 'Bulb' Hudec --pP0ycGQONqsnqIMP Content-Type: application/pgp-signature; name="signature.asc" Content-Description: Digital signature Content-Disposition: inline -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- Version: GnuPG v1.2.4 (GNU/Linux) iD8DBQFA/Yc9Rel1vVwhjGURAsnqAJ0Sma/c1ISJunJz5Cp96rqRXCObJwCeMxVR Ovrsyg3S5zAvPyKk6l0pT3o= =ByW6 -----END PGP SIGNATURE----- --pP0ycGQONqsnqIMP--