Re: [Haskell-cafe] Offer to mirror Hackage

2010-12-09 Thread Riad S. Wahby
Richard O'Keefe o...@cs.otago.ac.nz wrote: I thought X is a mirror of Y meant X would be a read-only replica of Y, with some sort of protocol between X and Y to keep X up to date. As long as the material from Y replicated at X is *supposed* to be publicly available, I don't see a security

Re: [Haskell-cafe] Offer to mirror Hackage

2010-12-04 Thread Riad S. Wahby
Ozgur Akgun ozgurak...@gmail.com wrote: This is a very generous offer. However, I must say I like the following idea more: http://www.reddit.com/r/haskell/comments/efw38/ reminder_hackagehaskellorg_outage_tomorrow_due_to/c17u7nk I'd support this, but I'm strongly in favor of the use of

Re: [Haskell-cafe] GHC 7.0.1 developer challenges

2010-12-04 Thread Riad S. Wahby
Edward Z. Yang ezy...@mit.edu wrote: There are many setuid binaries to non-root users, so getuid() != geteuid() would probably make more sense, though I'm not 100% it has all the correct security properties. Might as well throw in getegid() != getgid() for good measure. Another issue with

Re: [Haskell-cafe] Offer to mirror Hackage

2010-12-04 Thread Riad S. Wahby
wren ng thornton w...@freegeek.org wrote: Semantic Parse Fail: did you mean the latter or strongly opposed to? s/former/latter/ :) -=rsw ___ Haskell-Cafe mailing list Haskell-Cafe@haskell.org http://www.haskell.org/mailman/listinfo/haskell-cafe