Re: [Gnu-arch-users] Re: Linus

[Ethan Benson]

On Sun, Oct 12, 2003 at 11:36:28PM -0400, Colin Walters wrote:
> On Sun, 2003-10-12 at 23:32, Tom Lord wrote:
> 
> > Patient: it hurts when I do [demonstrating by bending over backwards
> > to touch the backs of his knees] this
> > 
> > 
> > Doctor: then don't do that
> 
> don't...share archives in a local filesystem?  That's a pretty major
> restriction, and it's something that CVS does fairly well if you're all
> in a Unix group.  arch should at least be able to match that.

not just a major restriction, its a completly ridiculous notion.

if you have shell access and use it, why should you be forced to go
through a slower transport when local fs access will work fine?

> > It is an f'ed up notion that when the OS and environment provides
> > perfectly sufficient access controls that apps should do anything
> > more.
> 
> But the OS and environment don't provide perfectly sufficient access
> controls, as Ethan, I, and others have shown.

i think its time we just implement my idea and advertise the patches,
then people who need this can just patch it, regardless of whether tom
likes it or not.  tla is free software afterall.

-- 
Ethan Benson
http://www.alaska.net/~erbenson/

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