drew Roberts wrote: > On Tuesday 19 May 2009 09:48:11 Fons Adriaensen wrote: > >> On Tue, May 19, 2009 at 08:40:58PM +0700, Patrick Shirkey wrote: >> >>> Krzysztof Foltman wrote: >>> >>>> Ideally, jackdbus shouldn't even allow jackd binary to >>>> exist in $PATH (and vice versa), to prevent the exact >>>> kind of situation that Fons is experiencing. >>>> >> Programs that do that kind of things have a name >> here: malware. I'm the boss on my system, and I >> will decide what goes into $PATH. Just as I decide >> which filesystems get mounted and where, and how >> permissions are set. >> > > Fons, I think some people have misunderstood some things you have said in this > thread. In this case I think you misunderstood Patrick. (Or I did - not a bad > possibility.) > > I think what he was saying was that jackdbus would check for jackd in $PATH > and complain bitterly / refuse to sintall / whatever. Not that it would try > and control what $PATH was set to. Or perhaps you got that and I > misunderstood your objection. > Hi Drew, If you are referring to me, then I would like to remove myself from the dbus issue. I am currently concerned about PA usage for non technical users and/or "Ralf Maldorf's" attitude towards Linux Audio as a platform. Cheers. -- Patrick Shirkey Boost Hardware Ltd. > If there is proper understanding and objections / differences still remain, > that is one thing. So often in life we are disagreeing with what we think > people mean when if fact we may agree with what they actually mean. > >> Ciao. >> > > all the best, > > drew > _______________________________________________ > Linux-audio-dev mailing list > Linux-audio-dev@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx > http://lists.linuxaudio.org/mailman/listinfo/linux-audio-dev > _______________________________________________ Linux-audio-user mailing list Linux-audio-user@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx http://lists.linuxaudio.org/mailman/listinfo/linux-audio-user
