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> As someone who is passively absorbing this information, I find your |
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> ignorance combined with your claim of being a security expert to |
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> indicate that you're full of shit. |
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> You've repetedly referred to the issue of cross-platform portability |
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> with SSP in here, for example; and I've pointed out once a link that |
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> shows that SSP is OS and CPU independent. Do your research, read what's |
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> out there. |
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So are you then going to test it for us on mips then? "I read it on the |
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internet so it must be true" is a *horrible* way to do QA. Mozilla is |
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also supposed to be arch neutral. Guess what...it doesn't work on mips. |
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Oops! We're a small arch in terms of both devs and users. To my |
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knowledge, a full SSP userland has *never* been tested on mips. We are |
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spread way to thin currently for such an endeavor. |
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So then, are you volunteering to build mips stages with SSP to prove |
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that it works for certain? We really don't have the manpower to do that |
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currently. Are you going to answer to any bug reports we would get if |
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this is implemented? |
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Also, in terms of "researching" this problem, do you realize you just |
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told the Gentoo/sparc strategic manager that he doesn't know anything |
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about his own arch? "No! you're wrong! SSP does work on your arch!" |
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Reminds me of arguments I've had with people that tried to tell me (I'm |
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a geologist) the Earth is only 7000 years old because the bible says so. |
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I suggest you pull your head out of the collective x86 ass. The |
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non-x86 arch teams have enough breakage to deal with without introducing |
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another layer of potential brokenness. |
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I still don't understand why we can't simply place a blurb in the |
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install handbook as I suggested before. It is always much easier to add |
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something than take it away in this circumstance. If a user *really* |
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wants that functionality, they'll add it in. If a user *really* doesn't |
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want it, but it is on by default, they will have to rebuild their whole |
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userland, which on machines such a those supported by the mips port |
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would be *extremely* painful. |
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Steve |
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