[FFmpeg-devel] FYI: wine patchbot software

Martin Lindhe martin
Fri Jun 5 10:14:51 CEST 2009


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M?ns Rullg?rd wrote:
> Martin Lindhe <martin at startwars.org> writes:
> 
>> Hello, I just wanted to let you all know that the Wine project has
>> prodcued a "patch bot" software.
>>
>> The concept is simple:
>>
>> * A script pulls patches sent to wine devel list, applies to TRUNK,
>> compiles & perform regression tests
> 
> That is security suicide.  What if someone sends a patch that makes it
> do something really nasty?
> 

wine "solves" that by running it inside a VM
but you got a point there

Best regards
Martin Lindhe
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