Subject: Re: NOTICE: pcvt on its death bed
To: Alan Barrett <apb@cequrux.com>
From: Jason R Thorpe <thorpej@zembu.com>
List: current-users
Date: 06/06/2000 06:53:31 
On Tue, Jun 06, 2000 at 03:21:16PM +0200, Alan Barrett wrote:

 > Yes:  the ability to run X (on i386) without options INSECURE.

Right, so the mechanism by which it does this is effectively the SAME
as running w/ `options INSECURE'.

The point is that the way XFree86 communicates with graphics devices is
*fundamentally* insecure, and until XFree86 fixes their software, it's
better to make its insecure nature explicit.

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        -- Jason R. Thorpe <thorpej@zembu.com>