Re: hardlinks.... sucks... ;-(

Rob Hagopian (hagopiar@vuser.vu.union.edu)
Mon, 29 Dec 1997 16:04:17 -0500 (EST)

I never said they shouldn't be options... And of course they need testing,
but considering the number of people that are using the patches, without
problems, they seem to be well beyond the threshold for kernel inclusion
(in 2.1.x of course).
-Rob H.

On Mon, 29 Dec 1997, Horst von Brand wrote:

> Rob Hagopian <hagopiar@vuser.vu.union.edu> said:
>
> [...]
>
> > These should dramaticly decrease the security holes due to bad user-space
> > programming and so I really don't see why they should be excluded from the
> > kernel... (with appropriate warnings/etc)
>
> Because if they break standards (either paper or just "custom" ones), they
> have to be made into options, and documented, and their interactions (set
> or not set) checked with the rest. This doesn't come for free...
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