From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Return-Path: Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S267320AbUHTNnI (ORCPT ); Fri, 20 Aug 2004 09:43:08 -0400 Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org id S267437AbUHTNnH (ORCPT ); Fri, 20 Aug 2004 09:43:07 -0400 Received: from mailhub.fokus.fraunhofer.de ([193.174.154.14]:27088 "EHLO mailhub.fokus.fraunhofer.de") by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S267320AbUHTNmw (ORCPT ); Fri, 20 Aug 2004 09:42:52 -0400 From: Joerg Schilling Date: Fri, 20 Aug 2004 15:41:54 +0200 To: schilling@fokus.fraunhofer.de, alan@lxorguk.ukuu.org.uk Cc: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org, kernel@wildsau.enemy.org, fsteiner-mail@bio.ifi.lmu.de, diablod3@gmail.com, B.Zolnierkiewicz@elka.pw.edu.pl Subject: Re: PATCH: cdrecord: avoiding scsi device numbering for ide devices Message-ID: <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> In-Reply-To: <1092938348.28370.19.camel@localhost.localdomain> User-Agent: nail 11.2 8/15/04 MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=iso-8859-1 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 8bit Sender: linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org X-Mailing-List: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org Alan Cox wrote: > On Iau, 2004-08-19 at 17:07, Joerg Schilling wrote: > > Cdrtools is is code freeze state. This is why I say the best idea is to remove > > this interface change from the current Linux kernel and wait until there will > > be new cdrtools alpha for 2.02 releases. These alpha could get support for uid > > switching. If Linux then would again switch the changes on, it makes sense. > > 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. Jörg -- EMail:joerg@schily.isdn.cs.tu-berlin.de (home) Jörg Schilling D-13353 Berlin js@cs.tu-berlin.de (uni) If you don't have iso-8859-1 schilling@fokus.fraunhofer.de (work) chars I am J"org Schilling URL: http://www.fokus.fraunhofer.de/usr/schilling ftp://ftp.berlios.de/pub/schily