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From: Johannes Schindelin <Johannes.Schindelin@gmx.de>
To: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
Cc: Johannes Sixt <johannes.sixt@telecom.at>, git@vger.kernel.org
Subject: Re: [PATCH] git-shell needs $(COMPAT_OBJS)
Date: Mon, 21 Jul 2008 00:35:18 +0200 (CEST)	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <alpine.DEB.1.00.0807210034050.3305@eeepc-johanness> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <7vzloc2odx.fsf@gitster.siamese.dyndns.org>

Hi,

On Sun, 20 Jul 2008, Junio C Hamano wrote:

> Why do we care about the size of git-shell so much in the first place 
> anyway to begin with?

It was not me who proposed it, but I guess it was for auditing purposes: 
git-shell is often the only point of entry for certain untrusted ssh 
users, and the less code is linked, the less code has to be analyzed for 
reachability (and then for security holes).

Ciao,
Dscho

  reply	other threads:[~2008-07-20 22:35 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 8+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2008-07-20 19:11 [PATCH] git-shell needs $(COMPAT_OBJS) Johannes Sixt
2008-07-20 21:34 ` Johannes Sixt
2008-07-20 22:15   ` Junio C Hamano
2008-07-20 22:35     ` Johannes Schindelin [this message]
2008-07-20 22:38       ` Junio C Hamano
2008-07-20 23:08         ` Miklos Vajna
2008-07-20 22:55     ` Junio C Hamano
2008-07-20 23:12       ` Junio C Hamano

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