more on hardware clock

Gregory Nowak greg at romuald.net.eu.org
Thu Oct 17 19:45:37 EDT 2002


On Thu, Oct 17, 2002 at 07:23:52PM -0400, Charles Hallenbeck wrote:
> the description is actually very intriguing. It seems to do the
> same thing for ld-linux.so that vsound does for /dev/dsp -- it
> intercepts its invocations and attempts to plug a number of
> common security holes in lots of software related to buffer
> overruns and such. 

Hmm, and it hung your system when running clock, right?

This fact along with your description of what it does above smells very much of Macroslop.

Owo, the Redmond boys have infiltrated the free software movement, help us all! <smile>

Greg





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