[FFmpeg-devel] [PATCH] Fix compilation on OpenBSD

[The Wanderer]

M?ns Rullg?rd wrote:

> Andrew Savchenko wrote:
> 
>> Hi,
>> 
>> On Tuesday 18 November 2008 00:25, M?ns Rullg?rd wrote:

>>> How can anyone live under such conditions?
>> 
>> Security implies some limitations.
> 
> I doubt that make 3.80 is any more or less secure than make 3.81, but
> whatever.

But not everything a user might install is safe, and some users might
potentially install dangerous things intentionally (to give themselves
backdoors for later use); preventing that also falls under the heading
of "security", and the obvious way to prevent it is to restrict what
users are permitted to install.

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