Re: on exit xterm totally wrecks linux 2.4.11 to 2.4.14-pre6 (unkillable processes)

From: David Ford (david@blue-labs.org)
Date: Thu Nov 01 2001 - 22:41:59 EST


You should censor those words ;) You wouldn't want us Americans knowing
about it.

"The <censored> should be fixed."

David

Rik van Riel wrote:

>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.
>
>Rik
>

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