On Tuesday 19 May 2009 15:02:59 Patrick Shirkey wrote:
> drew Roberts wrote:
> > On Tuesday 19 May 2009 09:48:11 Fons Adriaensen wrote:
> >> On Tue, May 19, 2009 at 08:40:58PM +0700, Patrick Shirkey wrote:
> >>> Krzysztof Foltman wrote:
> >>>> Ideally, jackdbus shouldn't even allow jackd binary to
> >>>> exist in $PATH (and vice versa), to prevent the exact
> >>>> kind of situation that Fons is experiencing.
> >>
> >> Programs that do that kind of things have a name
> >> here: malware. I'm the boss on my system, and I
> >> will decide what goes into $PATH. Just as I decide
> >> which filesystems get mounted and where, and how
> >> permissions are set.
> >
> > Fons, I think some people have misunderstood some things you have said in
> > this thread. In this case I think you misunderstood Patrick. (Or I did -
> > not a bad possibility.)
> >
> > I think what he was saying was that jackdbus would check for jackd in
> > $PATH and complain bitterly / refuse to sintall / whatever. Not that it
> > would try and control what $PATH was set to. Or perhaps you got that and
> > I misunderstood your objection.
>
> Hi Drew,
>
> If you are referring to me, then I would like to remove myself from the
> dbus issue.
Hey Patrick,
I don't think I was referring to you.
"> Krzysztof Foltman wrote:"
I think I was referring to what I thought was Fons misunderstanding what
Krzysztof wrote. Of if you were referring to me thinking some people had
misunderstood some of what Fons had written earlier, I don't remember the
details, I just remember thinking when I was reading that some of the heat
that seemed to be being generated seemed to be coming from possible
misunderstandings or quick scanning of posts.
> I am currently concerned about PA usage for non technical
> users and/or "Ralf Maldorf's" attitude towards Linux Audio as a platform.
>
>
>
> Cheers.
>
> --
> Patrick Shirkey
> Boost Hardware Ltd.
all the best,
drew
>
> > If there is proper understanding and objections / differences still
> > remain, that is one thing. So often in life we are disagreeing with what
> > we think people mean when if fact we may agree with what they actually
> > mean.
> >
> >> Ciao.
> >
> > all the best,
> >
> > drew
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