Subject: Re: [linux-audio-dev] Linux Security Module for realtime audio
From: Jesper Anderson (jesper_AT_pobox.com)
Date: Tue Dec 09 2003 - 01:49:24 EET
On Mon, Dec 08, 2003 at 11:38:55AM -0800, Tim Hockin wrote:
> On Mon, Dec 08, 2003 at 05:12:50PM -0600, Jack O'Quin wrote:
> > If you accept my arguments why this is not the right solution,
> > then the question remains, what to do about GTK-2? I don't
> > suppose the GTK developers are likely to take the test out just
> > because we ask them.
>
> Have we tried? It seems like a deeply paramoid check, to disallow
> sgid programs. Is that REALLY the business of the toolkit? I think
> they're overstepping their bounds, and they need to be reminded that
> some OTHER people need stuff like that.
GTK has been like that for years now. Check the archives of SLASH'EM,
a Nethack clone, for lots of back and forth. In short, they're not
going to change.
Jesper
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