Re: Bug#519339: ITP: tmux -- an alternative to screen, licensed under 3-BSD

2009-03-14 Thread Russell Coker
On Sat, 14 Mar 2009, Mike Hommey m...@glandium.org wrote: [Mike Hommey] Screen does that too, so that would hardly be less secure than screen. Well, if by in /tmp you mean in /var/run/screen. Well, that's a Debian thing. Upstream default is /tmp/screens, and last time I checked on

Re: Bug#519339: ITP: tmux -- an alternative to screen, licensed under 3-BSD

2009-03-13 Thread Mike Hommey
On Thu, Mar 12, 2009 at 09:43:37PM +, Steve Kemp wrote: On Thu Mar 12, 2009 at 22:37:41 +0100, Karl Ferdinand Ebert wrote: - a more usable status line syntax, with the ability to display the first line of output of a specific command; That is also possible in GNU Screen. -

Re: Bug#519339: ITP: tmux -- an alternative to screen, licensed under 3-BSD

2009-03-13 Thread Iustin Pop
On Thu, Mar 12, 2009 at 11:59:00PM +0100, Carsten Hey wrote: On Thu, Mar 12, 2009 at 11:17:02PM +0100, Guus Sliepen wrote: On Thu, Mar 12, 2009 at 10:37:41PM +0100, Karl Ferdinand Ebert wrote: - a clearly-defined client-server model: windows are independent entities which may be attached

Re: Bug#519339: ITP: tmux -- an alternative to screen, licensed under 3-BSD

2009-03-13 Thread Peter Samuelson
I've not looked at this at all - but the idea of shared sockets in /tmp which I recall from a previous message in the thread jumped out at me as being a recipe for symlink attacks, if nothing else. [Mike Hommey] Screen does that too, so that would hardly be less secure than screen.

Re: Bug#519339: ITP: tmux -- an alternative to screen, licensed under 3-BSD

2009-03-13 Thread Mike Hommey
On Fri, Mar 13, 2009 at 12:19:40PM -0500, Peter Samuelson wrote: I've not looked at this at all - but the idea of shared sockets in /tmp which I recall from a previous message in the thread jumped out at me as being a recipe for symlink attacks, if nothing else. [Mike Hommey]

Re: Bug#519339: ITP: tmux -- an alternative to screen, licensed under 3-BSD

2009-03-12 Thread William Pitcock
On Wed, 2009-03-11 at 23:56 +0100, Karl Ferdinand Ebert wrote: Package: wnpp Severity: wishlist Owner: Karl Ferdinand Ebert kfeb...@gmail.com * Package name: tmux Version : 0.7 Upstream Author : Nicholas Marriott n...@users.sf.net * URL :

Re: Bug#519339: ITP: tmux -- an alternative to screen, licensed under 3-BSD

2009-03-12 Thread Karl Ferdinand Ebert
Am Thursday 12 March 2009 11:13:00 schrieb Guus Sliepen: On Wed, Mar 11, 2009 at 11:56:01PM +0100, Karl Ferdinand Ebert wrote: * Package name: tmux Description : an alternative to screen, licensed under 3-BSD The short description should stand on its own, not reference other

Re: Bug#519339: ITP: tmux -- an alternative to screen, licensed under 3-BSD

2009-03-12 Thread Steve Kemp
On Thu Mar 12, 2009 at 22:37:41 +0100, Karl Ferdinand Ebert wrote: - a more usable status line syntax, with the ability to display the first line of output of a specific command; That is also possible in GNU Screen. - a cleaner, modern, easily extended, BSD-licensed codebase. That

Re: Bug#519339: ITP: tmux -- an alternative to screen, licensed under 3-BSD

2009-03-12 Thread Guus Sliepen
On Thu, Mar 12, 2009 at 10:37:41PM +0100, Karl Ferdinand Ebert wrote: The short description should stand on its own, not reference other software. The short description had been terminal multiplexer from the first packaging attempts but I did not know it had to be the line in the bug

Re: Bug#519339: ITP: tmux -- an alternative to screen, licensed under 3-BSD

2009-03-12 Thread Carsten Hey
On Thu, Mar 12, 2009 at 11:17:02PM +0100, Guus Sliepen wrote: On Thu, Mar 12, 2009 at 10:37:41PM +0100, Karl Ferdinand Ebert wrote: - a clearly-defined client-server model: windows are independent entities which may be attached simultaneously to multiple sessions and viewed from multiple

Bug#519339: ITP: tmux -- an alternative to screen, licensed under 3-BSD

2009-03-11 Thread Karl Ferdinand Ebert
Package: wnpp Severity: wishlist Owner: Karl Ferdinand Ebert kfeb...@gmail.com * Package name: tmux Version : 0.7 Upstream Author : Nicholas Marriott n...@users.sf.net * URL : http://sf.net/projects/tmux * License : BSD Programming Lang: C Description :