Re: on exit xterm totally wrecks linux 2.4.11 to 2.4.14-pre6

Richard Gooch (rgooch@ras.ucalgary.ca)
Thu, 1 Nov 2001 14:34:05 -0700


Rik van Riel writes:
> On Thu, 1 Nov 2001, Nick LeRoy wrote:
>
> > Yeah, I think that I know what I'm talking about. The question
> > was: Should devfs be fixed, or should xterm be fixed.
>
> If any random malicious user can crash the machine through
> devfs, I think the answer to this question is quite obvious.
>
> The security hole should be fixed.

Agreed. I will.

Regards,

Richard....
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