Re: MIT discovered issue with gcc

2013-11-27 Thread David L. Craig
On 13Nov27:2356+1100, Scott Ferguson wrote: On 27/11/13 23:37, David L. Craig wrote: On 13Nov27:1423+1100, Scott Ferguson wrote: On 27/11/13 13:49, David L. Craig wrote: On 13Nov26:1545-0500, David L. Craig wrote: On 13Nov26:1437-0500, Mark Haase wrote: Therefore, a Linux

Re: MIT discovered issue with gcc

2013-11-26 Thread David L. Craig
On 13Nov26:1437-0500, Mark Haase wrote: Therefore, a Linux distribution has 2 choices: (1) wait for upstream patches for bugs/vulnerabilities as they are found, or (2) recompile all packages with optimizations disabled. I don't think proposal #2 would get very far... Well, there's always -O1

Re: MIT discovered issue with gcc

2013-11-26 Thread David L. Craig
On 13Nov26:1545-0500, David L. Craig wrote: On 13Nov26:1437-0500, Mark Haase wrote: Therefore, a Linux distribution has 2 choices: (1) wait for upstream patches for bugs/vulnerabilities as they are found, or (2) recompile all packages with optimizations disabled. I don't think proposal

Re: signatures and keyservers

2001-07-10 Thread David L. Craig
ozymandias G desiderata [really?] wrote: Of course, this would be a different story if the web of trust were in more common usage, but it's not, outside of debian-maintainers and some small klatches of die-hard cypherpunks, some of whom are too paranoid to admit who they know anyway. Besides

Re: Re[2]: Wierd file name?

2001-07-02 Thread David L. Craig
Davy Gigan wrote: Try to execute a csh script without this command present in your path, it won't work very well ;-) Maybye it should be a symbolic link to /usr/bin/test ? #!/bin/csh [ -d /bin ] echo cool ; Actually, this is classic Bourne shell syntax--the [ hard link to test goes back

Re: Re[2]: Wierd file name?

2001-07-02 Thread David L. Craig
Davy Gigan wrote: Try to execute a csh script without this command present in your path, it won't work very well ;-) Maybye it should be a symbolic link to /usr/bin/test ? #!/bin/csh [ -d /bin ] echo cool ; Actually, this is classic Bourne shell syntax--the [ hard link to test goes back