linux-kernel - Re: [Regression] kdesu broken

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Date:	Sat, 25 Jul 2009 22:16:42 +0200
From:	"Rafael J. Wysocki" <rjw@...k.pl>
To:	Frans Pop <elendil@...net.nl>
Cc:	Alan Cox <alan@...rguk.ukuu.org.uk>, torvalds@...ux-foundation.org,
	ray-lk@...rabbit.org, linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org,
	akpm@...ux-foundation.org,
	Sergey Senozhatsky <sergey.senozhatsky@...l.by>
Subject: Re: [Regression] kdesu broken

On Saturday 25 July 2009, Frans Pop wrote:
> Alan Cox wrote:
> > Linus Torvalds wrote:
> >> We don't do regressions. If user space depended on old behavior, we
> >> don't change behavior
> > 
> > I think there are two bugs being confused here. The first kdesu bug
> > isn't the EIO one. It's just busted userspace code that happened to be
> > lucky. 
> > It's also impossible to keep that "luck" going. The other problem is the
> > EIO - which is a bug.
>  
> Just out of curiosity ad for reference.
> Has this issue already been reported to the KDE people? Any links to a bug 
> report or discussions there?

Not that I know of.  It's probably worth reporting, though.

Best,
Rafael
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