Status of Bugzilla #1153

Darren Tucker dtucker at zip.com.au
Wed Feb 22 07:46:06 EST 2006


Simon Vallet wrote:
> Come on now -- let's quit this this useless ranting. I'm not whining
> here : I experienced a problem with the way OpenSSH sets DISPLAY, I
> notified the developpers, and I even provide a fix.

No, you provided a patch (which is more than many people do, so for 
that, thank you) but whether or not it's a fix is still indeterminate.

> The general Unix philosophy is to give anyone enough rope to hang
> itself -- and actually there *are* some people who enjoy to get "hurt"
> that way.

Sure.  But we try to avoid hanging innocent bystanders at the same time :-)

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