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to: CHARLES ANGELICH
from: Jasen Betts
date: 2003-12-12 16:14:02
subject: Re: Knoppix

Hi CHARLES.

10-Dec-03 22:31:00, CHARLES ANGELICH wrote to DAVID DRUMMOND


 CA> 1237e12b7624 tech

 CA> Hello David -

 PS>>>> This can be done even under the Unix model, all the programmer
 PS>>>> needs to do is use one stat() syscall and look at the resulting
 PS>>>> information.

 CA>>> Apparently there are security issues at stake as well according
 CA>>> to what I find for "automount"?

 DD>> It's not 1999 anymore....

 CA> True enough but I haven't seen the "all clear" on that problem
 CA> with my own eyes and cannot say if they ever fixed it or not?

given that a patch was available in 1999 it can be reasonably surmised that
current releases don't have that bug.

 -=> Bye <=-

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