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just for disk formatting?
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regarding libuuid1: uuidd a suid program and id/gid pair just for disk
formatting?
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Package: libuuid1
Version: 1.40.5-2
Severity: wishlist
Does it really need a suid daemon to format a disk? Here we have a
simple library that after a while of existence suddenly requires a
deamon and an id/gid pair for some trivial functionality. Isn't
this an overkill?
OK, I have read Ted Tsos mail to lkml, but I still would like uuidd to
go away again. Do all OS grow fat when ageing?
-- System Information:
Debian Release: lenny/sid
APT prefers testing
APT policy: (500, 'testing')
Architecture: i386 (i686)
Kernel: Linux 2.6.22-6-sis (PREEMPT)
Locale: LANG=de_DE.UTF-8, LC_CTYPE=de_DE.UTF-8 (charmap=UTF-8)
Shell: /bin/sh linked to /bin/dash
Versions of packages libuuid1 depends on:
ii libc6 2.7-6 GNU C Library: Shared libraries
ii passwd 1:4.1.0-2 change and administer password and
Versions of packages libuuid1 recommends:
ii uuid-runtime 1.40.5-2 universally unique id library
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On Sun, Feb 10, 2008 at 08:06:14PM +0100, Juergen Pfennig wrote:
> Package: libuuid1
> Version: 1.40.5-2
> Severity: wishlist
>
> Does it really need a suid daemon to format a disk? Here we have a
> simple library that after a while of existence suddenly requires a
> deamon and an id/gid pair for some trivial functionality. Isn't
> this an overkill?
No, it's optional. You don't have to use it; it will do the right
thing without uuidd --- unless, that is, you write an commercial
enterprise resource planning application which tries to generate
thousands of UUID's per second, in multiple threads, wants to use
time-based UUID's because they compress and sort better in btrees (at
least if you store them backwards :-), and then complains that the
uuid_generate_time() time was creating non-unique (i.e., duplicate)
UUID's.
Technically, this is a bug --- a UUID generator should generate unique
UUID's under all circumstances, not just for its original use case of
mkfs --- and lots of Debian-ites are super anal-retentives about
completely correct behaviour on many fronts, whether it is about
whether or not the OpenSSL library is really compatible with the GPL
or not on the legal front, etc. If people can kill megabytes and
megabytes of innocent electrons on debian-legal about things like
that, then presumably we can show a little tolerance towards people
who want a UUID generation library to create, you know --- guaranteed
unique ID's.
> OK, I have read Ted Tsos mail to lkml, but I still would like uuidd to
> go away again. Do all OS grow fat when ageing?
Don't use it then! It's optional. The uuid library will work quite
well without it.
- Ted
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