Re: [Regression] kdesu broken

From: Rafael J. Wysocki
Date: Sat Jul 25 2009 - 16:16:17 EST


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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