Messages in this thread | | | Date | Thu, 31 Jan 2002 11:49:50 +1100 | From | Stuart Young <> | Subject | Re: Wanted: Volunteer to code a Patchbot |
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At 04:46 PM 30/01/02 +0100, Daniel Phillips wrote: >On January 30, 2002 04:28 pm, Rasmus Andersen wrote: > > Somehow, I totally forgot the security disclaimer for some of > > the points. Obviously, mindlessly patching a makefile and > > executing it would be a Bad Idea. If no satisfying solution > > to this can be found, this (execute/compile) step could be > > foregone. > > > > Thanks to Tommy Faasen for raising this point. > >I'd say, don't try to run it, just see if it applies cleanly. > >Speaking of security, we can't expect Matti to take care of blocking spam >on the patch lists the way he does on lkml, so that is going to have to >be handled, or the system will fall apart. Well, spammers are not going >to be bright enough to send correctly formed patches that apply without >rejects I hope, so maybe that is a non-problem.
Possibly, but then it'll reply to the spammer and you'll get bounces left and right. Perhaps it's a simple case that the patcher submitting will have to have registered the email address before submitting their patch. Only needs to be done once (not every time a patch is submitted, that's mad!), and weeds out the noise.
Stuart Young - sgy@amc.com.au (aka Cefiar) - cefiar1@optushome.com.au
[All opinions expressed in the above message are my] [own and not necessarily the views of my employer..]
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