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

2009-03-13 Thread Russell Coker
On Sat, 14 Mar 2009, Mike Hommey 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 RH

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

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 scr

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 a

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 Scre

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 multi

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

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 w

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 William Pitcock
On Wed, 2009-03-11 at 23:56 +0100, Karl Ferdinand Ebert wrote: > Package: wnpp > Severity: wishlist > Owner: Karl Ferdinand Ebert > > * Package name: tmux > Version : 0.7 > Upstream Author : Nicholas Marriott > * URL : http://sf.net/projects/tmux > * License :

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

2009-03-12 Thread 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 software. You can mention this package's relation with screen in

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 * Package name: tmux Version : 0.7 Upstream Author : Nicholas Marriott * URL : http://sf.net/projects/tmux * License : BSD Programming Lang: C Description : an alternative to screen, licensed