Messages in this thread | | | Date | Sat, 22 Jul 2000 23:41:47 +0100 (BST) | From | James Sutherland <> | Subject | Re: disk-destroyer.c |
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On Sat, 22 Jul 2000, Khimenko Victor wrote:
> In <Pine.LNX.4.10.10007212148400.4130-100000@dax.joh.cam.ac.uk> James Sutherland (jas88@cam.ac.uk) wrote: > > On Fri, 21 Jul 2000, Andre Hedrick wrote: > > >> On Fri, 21 Jul 2000, Dan Hollis wrote: > >> > >> > On Fri, 21 Jul 2000, James Sutherland wrote: > >> > >> I used a bad word of choice. I can not DISKTOBRICK. > >> But can genrate code that will attempt and may have success. > >> Regardless do you want access to such attempts available in the kernel? > >> Unchecked? > > > Let's make it a config option (CONFIG_SELFDESTRUCTBUTTON), release it in > > 2.4.0, then see how many people enable it. That should clear this argument > > up :-) > > It will not. You can not find truth by voting. Few years ago (less then 1000) > most peoples were sure that Earth is flat, for example.
I wouldn't put "not enabling self-destruct" in that category, though. You might want a self-destruct facility on your machine - that's fine. Just do NOT try to get it (kept) in the kernel for other people to hurt themselves with.
James.
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