hmm, on Sun, Jul 25, 2010 at 04:33:27PM -0700, Philip Guenther said that > What does that get us? They can still fuck up ld.so or libc, and > poof, most the programs on the system will crash when started! > Overwrite /etc/passwd with /dev/random and rename /bin and your system > will stop being useful. > > WHAT PROBLEM ARE YOU TRYING TO SOLVE?
the borderline between the useful and useless error checking is sometimes a bit fuzzy i think. i personally think this is an issue, perhaps not an important one, but one that i dont associate with bsd superior quality, that's all. i mean what was the chance of happening of this? but it could help make the system more robust.. it highlighted an issue "outside the box". -f -- bungee diving - living it up when you're going down!
