Messages in this thread | | | Date | Fri, 24 Jul 2009 16:40:58 +0100 | From | Alan Cox <> | Subject | Re: [Regression] kdesu broken |
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On Fri, 24 Jul 2009 17:21:45 +0200 "Rafael J. Wysocki" <rjw@sisk.pl> wrote:
> On Friday 24 July 2009, Ray Lee wrote: > > On Thu, Jul 23, 2009 at 4:45 PM, Rafael J. Wysocki<rjw@sisk.pl> wrote: > > > A recent kernel change broke kdesu (from KDE 4.2) on my test boxes. ISTR a > > > discussion about that, but I can't find it right now. Any clues? > > > > See the thread starting here: ("possible regression with pty.c commit") > > http://lkml.org/lkml/2009/7/11/125 > > Thanks for the pointer. > > Well, I thought we were expected to avoid breaking existing user space, even > if that were buggy etc.
I don't know where you got that idea from. Avoiding breaking user space unneccessarily is good but if its buggy you often can't do anything about it.
Alan
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