Beagle

[Les Mikesell]

Craig White wrote:
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> of course that misses the point...since root running GUI is what is not
> recommended, thus root running beagle isn't tested.
There is a historical concept in unix that root can do anything.  The 
idea that he
shouldn't is a rather recent admission of bad/poorly tested programming and
the need for a workaround. 

> The fact that you
> run GUI as root, knowing that it isn't tested, it isn't recommended and
> in the top 3 things not to do, and in spite of knowing all that, you
> choose to do it anyway suggests that advisories of any kind would be
> pointless.
Yes, many people use unix and unix-like systems for their consistency 
over long
periods of time.  Kernighan mostly got it right the first time with the 
simple security
model and anything not fully backwards-compatible needs more than an
advisory warning about such breakage.

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  Les Mikesell
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