On Tue, May 19, 2009 at 08:40:58PM +0700, Patrick
Shirkey wrote:
Krzysztof Foltman wrote:
> Ideally, jackdbus shouldn't even allow jackd binary to
> exist in $PATH (and vice versa), to prevent the exact
> kind of situation that Fons is experiencing.
>
Programs that do that kind of things have a name
here: malware. I'm the boss on my system, and I
will decide what goes into $PATH. Just as I decide
which filesystems get mounted and where, and how
permissions are set.
Fons, I think some people have misunderstood some things you have said in this
thread. In this case I think you misunderstood Patrick. (Or I did - not a bad
possibility.)
I think what he was saying was that jackdbus would check for jackd in $PATH
and complain bitterly / refuse to sintall / whatever. Not that it would try
and control what $PATH was set to. Or perhaps you got that and I
misunderstood your objection.