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Subject: Re: Here's another glibc env. var.
From: Matthew Kirkwood (weejockferret.lmh.ox.ac.uk)
Date: Thu May 25 2000 - 06:07:40 CDT

On Thu, 25 May 2000, Pavel Kankovsky wrote:

> > You're removing needed functionality to get around programming errors.
>
> No. I suggest to reduce functionality to discourage bad design.
> Complex security-hazard-prone code, including (but not limited to)
> user interface stuff, should be separated from code running with
> elevated privileges that should be really small, simple, and paranoid.

What about ping? Should that be split into client/server
portions?

Matthew.