Re: Vista & coreutils (or any other package)

[One Angry User <angry at lusers dot org>]

On a sunny Friday, the 15th day of December, 2006, Ed C. Luless's computer deigned to emit the following stream of bytes:

> See. This is what I mean.
>
> The Microsoft bashing is getting out fo hand.
>
> i get the Feeling that people don't really understand what Microsoft is
> trying to acomplish.  Vista is trying to be a SECURE OS.
>
> -ed.c
>
> On Fri, Dec 15, 2006 at 09:20:58AM -0700, Eric Blake wrote:
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> >According to Corinna Vinschen on 12/14/2006 8:26 AM:
> >> Hi,
> >>
> >> just FYI, I'd like to point you to this thread on the Microsoft Windows
> >> Vista developer forum:
> >>
> >> http://forums.microsoft.com/MSDN/ShowPost.aspx?PostID=1020271&SiteID=1&mode=1
> >
> >Oh. My.  Well, as I maintain coreutils, and don't have access to Vista, I
> >will have a very tough time testing any "workarounds" to this blatant bug.
> > Deciding that a file is a "security risk" purely on its metadata is
> >absolutely wrong - it is the contents that matter, and not the file name.
> >
> >- --
> >Life is short - so eat dessert first!
> >
> >Eric Blake             ebb9@byu.net
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> Ed C. Lueless                    Computer Geru/Master Programmer
> "The trouble with being punctual is that nobody's there to appreciate it." -- Franklin P. Jones
> "Ed C.  - you are the man!" -- my boss

Ed, nice job on the TOFU, but you forgot to include the raw email
address...  You're slipping, man, simply slipping...

OAU