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From: Thierry Vignaud <tvignaud@mandriva.com>
Date: Mon, 09 Jan 2006 17:49:49 +0000
Subject: Re: [Alsa-devel] Re: [OT] ALSA userspace API complexity
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To: Olivier Galibert <galibert@pobox.com>
Cc: Martin Drab <drab@kepler.fjfi.cvut.cz>, Takashi Iwai <tiwai@suse.de>, ALSA development <alsa-devel@alsa-project.org>, linux-sound@vger.kernel.org, LKML <linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org>

Olivier Galibert <galibert@pobox.com> writes:

> - stop making a fundamentally unsecure shared library mandatory

do you speak about known vulnerabilities in ALSA lib or are you
trolling^h^h^h^h^h^h^h assuming that kernel code is safer than
userspace one?

afaic I don't assume this.
I'd prefer see bad code make one app crashing than oopsing the whole
machine.