cross-platform virus

[john]

On Sat, Apr 08, 2006 at 07:22:04PM -0700, Corey Burger wrote:
> In future, the plan is not to run any graphical applications as root.
> There are some cool tech demos of having the graphical application
> call a helper application that does the actual changes. This means
> that you have less code running as root, a definite advantage. See:
> http://lists.freedesktop.org/archives/hal/2006-March/004770.html

Cool. This also has the advantage that when adept decides to do a 

    while(1){malloc(n)}

the system won't break, or at least won't break quite so badly.

-- 
John C. McCabe-Dansted
Masters Student