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To: Bernd Eckenfels <ecki@calista.eckenfels.6bone.ka-ip.net>
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Date: Fri, 24 Oct 2003 01:10:19 -0400
From: Ernie Petrides <petrides@redhat.com>
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On Friday, 24-Oct-2003 at 4:19 +0200, Bernd Eckenfels wrote:

> In article <200310240136.h9O1aaOU002931@pasta.boston.redhat.com> you wrote:
> > However, I agree that it's often not viable to require application
> > changes to achieve the desired result.
>
> What does often mean? This is the Open Source Linux, and here we can do
> changes to the source if it is good for securtiy, architecture, speat,
> whatever.

I agree, but sometimes the source to the *application* is not available
to us.

Cheers.  -ernie