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From: David Ford <david@blue-labs.org>
To: Rik van Riel <riel@conectiva.com.br>
Cc: Nick LeRoy <nleroy@cs.wisc.edu>,
	"Jeffrey W. Baker" <jwbaker@acm.org>,
	linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org
Subject: Re: on exit xterm  totally wrecks linux 2.4.11 to 2.4.14-pre6 (unkillable processes)
Date: Thu, 01 Nov 2001 22:41:59 -0500	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <3BE21607.2080903@blue-labs.org> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <Pine.LNX.4.33L.0111011839120.447-100000@duckman.distro.conectiva>

You should censor those words ;)  You wouldn't want us Americans knowing 
about it.

"The <censored> should be fixed."

David

Rik van Riel wrote:

>On Thu, 1 Nov 2001, Nick LeRoy wrote:
>
>>Yeah, I think that I know what I'm talking about.  The question
>>was:  Should devfs be fixed, or should xterm be fixed.
>>
>
>If any random malicious user can crash the machine through
>devfs, I think the answer to this question is quite obvious.
>
>The security hole should be fixed.
>
>Rik
>



  parent reply	other threads:[~2001-11-02  3:44 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 17+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2001-11-01 16:25 on exit xterm totally wrecks linux 2.4.11 to 2.4.14-pre6 (unkillable processes) Ricardo Martins
2001-11-01 19:05 ` Pierre Rousselet
2001-11-01 19:19 ` Ricardo Martins
2001-11-01 19:31   ` Pierre Rousselet
2001-11-01 19:44     ` Nick LeRoy
2001-11-01 20:00       ` Pierre Rousselet
2001-11-01 20:06         ` Nick LeRoy
2001-11-01 20:13           ` Jeffrey W. Baker
2001-11-01 20:35             ` Nick LeRoy
2001-11-01 20:40               ` Rik van Riel
2001-11-01 21:34                 ` Richard Gooch
2001-11-02  3:41                 ` David Ford [this message]
2001-11-01 20:42               ` Brian Gerst
2001-11-09  1:17           ` Dr. Kelsey Hudson
2001-11-01 19:47   ` Ricardo Martins
2001-11-01 19:58     ` Per Lidén
  -- strict thread matches above, loose matches on Subject: below --
2001-11-02  6:16 Chris Rankin

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