On Sat, 3 Mar 2007 00:19:30 +0000, Luke Kenneth Casson Leighton
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> kdm, wdm and xdm and gdm _all_ are _incredibly_ similar - it's as
> if they were all derived from the same codebase at some time
> (hmmm...)
> they all have near-identical user authentication, and it's pretty
> obvious, when you look at the right sections, exactly what needs to
> be done.
> in fact, without _fully_ understanding the implications, i simply
> cut/paste the code from wdm to create the kdm patch, and the reason
> it was rejected was because the original wdm selinux code had an
> obscure error-case _tiny_ memory leak.
> i mean, how _utterly_ pathetic and small-minded is that.
> a thirty line patch i think it was, where the area was abundantly
> obvious that you change one if statement around, and the guy
> couldn't be bothered to fix it, after contacting me _months_ -
> nearly a _year_
> - after i'd stopped doing selinux and kdm development and would
> have to
> take _days_ to recreate the environment and he could have taken a
> _few_ minutes of his "precious" time to fix it.
> really i was not in the slightest bit interested in pursuing the
> matter further.
I did the original xdm patch back in 2003 or so, and have
since worked on patching several other packages for SELinux, so I do
know the domain.
I gave downloaded the latest sources, and will work out an
updated patch as soon as I get the darned GR vote going.
I'll even help answering upstream questions to get it pushed
upstream.
manoj
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