From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Return-Path: Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S267350AbUHTN4Z (ORCPT ); Fri, 20 Aug 2004 09:56:25 -0400 Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org id S267553AbUHTN4Z (ORCPT ); Fri, 20 Aug 2004 09:56:25 -0400 Received: from rproxy.gmail.com ([64.233.170.202]:20817 "EHLO mproxy.gmail.com") by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S267350AbUHTNzy (ORCPT ); Fri, 20 Aug 2004 09:55:54 -0400 Message-ID: Date: Fri, 20 Aug 2004 09:55:54 -0400 From: Patrick McFarland Reply-To: Patrick McFarland To: Joerg Schilling Subject: Re: PATCH: cdrecord: avoiding scsi device numbering for ide devices Cc: alan@lxorguk.ukuu.org.uk, linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org, kernel@wildsau.enemy.org, fsteiner-mail@bio.ifi.lmu.de, b.zolnierkiewicz@elka.pw.edu.pl In-Reply-To: <4125FFA2.nail8LD61HFT4@burner> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=US-ASCII Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit 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> Sender: linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org X-Mailing-List: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org On Fri, 20 Aug 2004 15:41:54 +0200, Joerg Schilling wrote: > Unless you tell us what kind of "security holes" you found _and_ when this has > been, it looks like a meaningless remark. Face it, you think anything anyone says (including Alan, Linus, me, and anyone else who happens by) anything about your precious cdrtools is making meaningless remarks. Allowing users to fuck hardware using a badly written permissions system _is_ a security hole, no matter how much you dance around the issue. This is why Linus added what he did, so users couldn't; which means _fix your damn program and quit your bitching_. -- Patrick "Diablo-D3" McFarland || diablod3@gmail.com "Computer games don't affect kids; I mean if Pac-Man affected us as kids, we'd all be running around in darkened rooms, munching magic pills and listening to repetitive electronic music." -- Kristian Wilson, Nintendo, Inc, 1989