linux-kernel - Re: [Regression] kdesu broken

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Date:	Sat, 25 Jul 2009 16:02:48 +0200
From:	Frans Pop <elendil@...net.nl>
To:	Alan Cox <alan@...rguk.ukuu.org.uk>
Cc:	torvalds@...ux-foundation.org, rjw@...k.pl, ray-lk@...rabbit.org,
	linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org, akpm@...ux-foundation.org,
	Sergey Senozhatsky <sergey.senozhatsky@...l.by>
Subject: Re: [Regression] kdesu broken

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?
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