Re: [PATCH] libressl: add dummy egd functions

2014-07-14 Thread Theo de Raadt
>Ted Unangst tedunangst.com> writes: > >> Any system that actually uses egd is so hopelessly broken you >> are better off just turning around and walking away. No software in >> 2014 should be using egd; no software in 2014 should support using egd >> by accident. > >This is wrong. The egd protoco

Re: [PATCH] libressl: add dummy egd functions

2014-07-14 Thread Thorsten Glaser
Ted Unangst tedunangst.com> writes: > Any system that actually uses egd is so hopelessly broken you > are better off just turning around and walking away. No software in > 2014 should be using egd; no software in 2014 should support using egd > by accident. This is wrong. The egd protocol is acc

Re: [PATCH] libressl: add dummy egd functions

2014-07-12 Thread Miod Vallat
> I didn't know what egd was up until today, but reading what it is I > completely understand that consideration. However, this breaks a number > of packages (wget, python, ruby). > > There's probably a simple solution: Just add dummy functions that > always return -1 (which according to the docs

Re: [PATCH] libressl: add dummy egd functions

2014-07-11 Thread Ted Unangst
On Sat, Jul 12, 2014 at 01:13, Hanno Böck wrote: > I didn't know what egd was up until today, but reading what it is I > completely understand that consideration. However, this breaks a number > of packages (wget, python, ruby). Those packages would all be better off without egd support. In the c

Re: [PATCH] libressl: add dummy egd functions

2014-07-11 Thread Stuart Henderson
On 2014/07/12 01:13, Hanno Böck wrote: > I didn't know what egd was up until today, but reading what it is I > completely understand that consideration. However, this breaks a number > of packages (wget, python, ruby). > There's probably a simple solution: Just add dummy functions that > always re

[PATCH] libressl: add dummy egd functions

2014-07-11 Thread Hanno Böck
Hi, I hope this is the right place to post libressl-related discussions. I'm new here. After today's release of the portable libressl version I tried to use it as a drop-in-replacement on a gentoo linux system. There were a numbre of issues popping up. A number of packages failed to compile due