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: > >

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

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

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. Besi

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 goe

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 go