Vista & coreutils (or any other package)

Ed C. Luless ed.c@lueless.org
Fri Dec 15 16:31:00 GMT 2006


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
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