Security implications for user interface changes! [LWN.net]

Security implications for user interface changes!

Posted Dec 18, 2012 20:38 UTC (Tue) by mirabilos (subscriber, #84359)
In reply to: Security implications for user interface changes! by nix
Parent article: Security implications for user interface changes?

We have a working sed *and* a working m4 on all platforms.
They’re just usually the BSD variants, not the GNU variants.

In fact, all target platforms (Interix to the lowest degree)
are a complete working, usually self-hosted, Unix system.
They just do not include GNU m4. Or GNU make, for that matter
(well, Mac OSX does, but let’s ignore that piece).

That model is *not* broken, and has worked with GNU tools for
several years, but apparently, recently, the GNU vendor lock-in
(something I’d normally expect from commercial/proprietary Unix
makers) got worse. (Not yet at the level of Poettering, but close.)

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