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Re: Supporting POSIX *users*
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Jonathan S. Shapiro |
Subject: |
Re: Supporting POSIX *users* |
Date: |
Tue, 01 Nov 2005 14:14:16 -0500 |
On Tue, 2005-11-01 at 17:49 +0100, Alfred M. Szmidt wrote:
> Yes, but the *really* cool thing about a secure system is that even
> when the user does this, they can't screw *me* up.
>
> That is how a POSIX system works, so it isn't true only for `secure
> systems' (I'm assuming that a system that follows POSIX like GNU isn't
> a `secure system').
This certainly has not been my experience. My experience has been that
there is only one type of POSIX compromise in practice: total
compromise.
- Re: Supporting POSIX *users*, Alfred M\. Szmidt, 2005/11/01
- Re: Supporting POSIX *users*, Jonathan S. Shapiro, 2005/11/01
- Re: Supporting POSIX *users*, Alfred M\. Szmidt, 2005/11/01
- Re: Supporting POSIX *users*, Jonathan S. Shapiro, 2005/11/01
- Re: Supporting POSIX *users*, Alfred M\. Szmidt, 2005/11/01