From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Return-Path: Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S266366AbUHTOLz (ORCPT ); Fri, 20 Aug 2004 10:11:55 -0400 Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org id S267431AbUHTOLz (ORCPT ); Fri, 20 Aug 2004 10:11:55 -0400 Received: from the-village.bc.nu ([81.2.110.252]:53895 "EHLO localhost.localdomain") by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S266366AbUHTOLy (ORCPT ); Fri, 20 Aug 2004 10:11:54 -0400 Subject: Re: PATCH: cdrecord: avoiding scsi device numbering for ide devices From: Alan Cox To: Joerg Schilling Cc: Linux Kernel Mailing List , kernel@wildsau.enemy.org, fsteiner-mail@bio.ifi.lmu.de, diablod3@gmail.com, Bartlomiej Zolnierkiewicz In-Reply-To: <4125FFA2.nail8LD61HFT4@burner> References: <200408041233.i74CX93f009939@wildsau.enemy.org> <4124BA10.6060602@bio.ifi.lmu.de> <1092925942.28353.5.camel@localhost.localdomain> <200408191800.56581.bzolnier@elka.pw.edu.pl> <4124D042.nail85A1E3BQ6@burner> <1092938348.28370.19.camel@localhost.localdomain> <4125FFA2.nail8LD61HFT4@burner> Content-Type: text/plain Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Message-Id: <1093007370.30940.29.camel@localhost.localdomain> Mime-Version: 1.0 X-Mailer: Ximian Evolution 1.4.6 (1.4.6-2) Date: Fri, 20 Aug 2004 14:09:30 +0100 Sender: linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org X-Mailing-List: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org On Gwe, 2004-08-20 at 14:41, Joerg Schilling wrote: > > While Sun did spend a year refusing to fix security holes I found - for > > "compatibility reasons" - long ago back when I was a sysadmin at NTL, > > the Linux world does not work that way. > > Unless you tell us what kind of "security holes" you found _and_ when this has > been, it looks like a meaningless remark. Solaris of 2.5 era had bugs that allowed any user with rsh access to issue network configuration ioctls. The sun engineers fixed the bug the day I reported it then various other people refused to allow it out for a year. Linux doesn't work this way. We fix security bugs as a priority.