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From: Jens Axboe <axboe@suse.de>
To: Andre Hedrick <andre@linux-ide.org>
Cc: Alan Cox <alan@lxorguk.ukuu.org.uk>,
	Linus Torvalds <torvalds@transmeta.com>,
	linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org
Subject: Re: Microsoft ZERO Sector Virus, Result of Taskfile WAR
Date: Tue, 6 Mar 2001 22:31:51 +0100	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <20010306223151.W2803@suse.de> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20010306214838.V2803@suse.de> <Pine.LNX.4.10.10103061255301.13719-100000@master.linux-ide.org>
In-Reply-To: <Pine.LNX.4.10.10103061255301.13719-100000@master.linux-ide.org>; from andre@linux-ide.org on Tue, Mar 06, 2001 at 12:59:37PM -0800

On Tue, Mar 06 2001, Andre Hedrick wrote:
> > But I might want to do this (write sector 0), why would we want
> > to filter that? If someone a) uses an email client that will execute
> > java script code (or whatever) and b) runs that as root (which
> > he would have to do, surely no ordinary user has privileges to send
> > arbitrary commands) then he gets what he deserves.
> 
> Jens we are not going there....the filter is the only way known to jam
> unknown commands, and you missed the point of the issue then and I think
> you still miss it.  "arbitrary commands" + wrong hander is lock-up.

I'm perfectly aware of the handler issue. So make it part of the
user space taskfile interface in a nice way, done and done. And I
knew I shouldn't have replied to this, the last thing I want to do
is start another flamewar :-)

So EOD from me.

-- 
Jens Axboe


  parent reply	other threads:[~2001-03-06 21:32 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 19+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2001-03-06 20:10 Andre Hedrick
2001-03-06 20:44 ` Mike Dresser
2001-03-06 20:55   ` Andre Hedrick
2001-03-06 20:48 ` Jens Axboe
2001-03-06 20:59   ` Andre Hedrick
2001-03-06 21:23     ` James A. Sutherland
2001-03-06 21:26       ` Andre Hedrick
2001-03-06 21:31     ` Jens Axboe [this message]
2001-03-06 21:35       ` Andre Hedrick
2001-03-07  5:30   ` J. Dow
2001-03-07 12:21     ` Harvey Fishman
2001-03-07 20:32       ` Andre Hedrick
2001-03-07 20:58         ` Craig Ruff
2001-03-07 21:15           ` Andre Hedrick
2001-03-07 22:05             ` Craig Ruff
2001-03-07 22:35               ` Andre Hedrick
2001-03-07 22:41                 ` Craig Ruff
2001-03-07 21:17         ` Richard B. Johnson
2001-03-07 22:09 Andries.Brouwer

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