Re: a small C program to test xdm's /dev/mem reading on your architecture

2002-08-26 Thread Marcus Brinkmann
t of having checked the facts. Uh, I never, ever said that xdm would read megabytes from any /dev/ but /dev/mem. Some people have too much phantasies. Thanks, Brandon, Marcus -- `Rhubarb is no Egyptian god.' GNU http://www.gnu.org [EMAIL PROTECTED] Marcus Brinkmann

Re: a small C program to test xdm's /dev/mem reading on your architecture

2002-08-26 Thread Marcus Brinkmann
t size_t's good entropy wasted for no important use still. In some environments, good entropy is really hard to get at. Thanks, Marcus -- `Rhubarb is no Egyptian god.' GNU http://www.gnu.org[EMAIL PROTECTED] Marcus Brinkmann The Hurd http://www.gnu.org/softwa

Re: a small C program to test xdm's /dev/mem reading on your architecture

2002-08-26 Thread Marcus Brinkmann
On Mon, Aug 26, 2002 at 08:16:06PM +0100, Matthew Wilcox wrote: > On Mon, Aug 26, 2002 at 09:10:54PM +0200, Marcus Brinkmann wrote: > > Also, reading /dev/mem doesn't sound very secure at all (even if it works) > > because the patterns in the memory of a computer are probably p

Re: a small C program to test xdm's /dev/mem reading on your architecture

2002-08-26 Thread Marcus Brinkmann
ev/mem doesn't sound very secure at all (even if it works) because the patterns in the memory of a computer are probably predictable and a lot of information can be observed from the outside (which processes are running etc). Thanks, Marcus -- `Rhubarb is no Egyptian god.' GNU http

Re: Where is the autobuilder?

2001-03-06 Thread Marcus Brinkmann
nd it doesn't support source dependencies. (Although I think it should be easy to hack sbuild or how it is called into it). It's also using a perl gpg module that doesn't exist anymore, I am going to hack this very soon. Marcus -- `Rhubarb is no Egyptian god.' De

Re: Where is the autobuilder?

2001-03-06 Thread Marcus Brinkmann
orts. Beside wanna-build, which is used by all ports but hurd-i386, there is also turtle, see http://sourceforge.com/projects/turtle. Marcus -- `Rhubarb is no Egyptian god.' Debian http://www.debian.org [EMAIL PROTECTED] Marcus Brinkmann GNUhttp://www.gnu.org[EMAIL PRO

Re: HORROR!: System in unstable state....

1999-06-17 Thread Marcus Brinkmann
bnfslock or a Hurd problem, though. Thanks, marcus -- `Rhubarb is no Egyptian god.' Debian http://www.debian.org finger brinkmd@ Marcus Brinkmann GNUhttp://www.gnu.org master.debian.org [EMAIL PROTECTED]for public PGP Key http://homepage.ruhr-