From: Arjan van de Ven <arjan@infradead.org>
To: Bill Davidsen <davidsen@tmr.com>
Cc: Alan Cox <alan@lxorguk.ukuu.org.uk>,
Kai Makisara <Kai.Makisara@kolumbus.fi>,
Linux Kernel Mailing List <linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org>
Subject: Re: [PATCH] make st seekable again
Date: Thu, 10 Mar 2005 13:10:40 +0100 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <1110456640.6291.79.camel@laptopd505.fenrus.org> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <Pine.LNX.3.96.1050310064102.10287B-100000@gatekeeper.tmr.com>
> critical user data.
>
> In other words, it should work correctly or not at all. At the least this
> should be a config option, like UNSAFE_TAPE_POSITIONING or some such.
> And show the option if the build includes BROKEN features. That should put
> the decision where it belongs and clarify the possible failures.
CONFIG_SECURITY_HOLES doesn't make sense.
Better to just fix the security holes instead.
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2005-03-10 12:11 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 11+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
[not found] <200503081911.j28JBlxi016013@hera.kernel.org>
2005-03-09 20:51 ` Alan Cox
2005-03-09 21:58 ` Kai Makisara
2005-03-09 22:27 ` Alan Cox
2005-03-10 11:49 ` Bill Davidsen
2005-03-10 12:10 ` Arjan van de Ven [this message]
2005-03-10 16:43 ` Alan Cox
2005-03-10 16:56 ` Bill Davidsen
2005-03-10 17:13 ` Arjan van de Ven
2005-03-10 17:58 ` Alan Cox
[not found] <fa.i3f7d9s.30m8rg@ifi.uio.no>
[not found] ` <fa.l4kuq52.e6001g@ifi.uio.no>
2005-03-10 0:43 ` Bodo Eggert
2005-03-10 20:01 ` Willy Tarreau
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