Michael Van Canneyt wrote: > On Wed, 18 Jul 2007, Marco van de Voort wrote: >> > On 18 Jul 2007, at 14:08, Jonas Maebe wrote: >> > >> > >> Install the IDE setuid. >> > > >> > > That would be an extremely bad idea with the current stability >> > > record of the IDE. >> > >> > Not to mention that it allows you to open and overwrite any arbitrary >> > file. >> >> Yes. Just like we all have for decades. And no, it is not ideal, but >> apparantly that is what the kernel devels want as the only way to access >> the >> full terminal capability. > > You cannot distribute a tool which creates a security hole as large as > from > here till Tokio. That would not look good the day it is discovered, and > arguments like "the kernel forcing us to do so" will not help us then. > > It just means you'll have less functionality. > How does midnight commander solve it? As far as I know, it also > has strange keyboard combinations ?
Yes, exactly. And as far as I know, this is one of the most common complaints from people used to other NC-like managers running on other systems (compare this to users used to TP/BP IDE). That's actually a very good example. ;-) Tomas _______________________________________________ fpc-devel maillist - [email protected] http://lists.freepascal.org/mailman/listinfo/fpc-devel
