scary story

[Adam]

On 2 Aug 2000, Ben Pfaff wrote:

>It seems to me that it's been a slow week here in linux-user, so
>I've decided to post an article by Alexandro Viro in a.s.r from
>way back in February.  In case you're not familiar with Alexander
>Viro, he's the architect of the Linux kernel's VFS (virtual file
>system) subsystem.  He's a godlike hacker and a personification
>of the BOFH nature.  The article below is in itself enough to be
>able to lay claim to at least the former of these titles, IMO.

Sure sounds like it, and I do fear the process.  What erks me though is
why the heck isn't at least insmod not compiled static? 

And whats a sash? (some kind of joke or something im not familiar with?)



>Read it and be enlightened.
>
>[snippage of irrelevant material below]
>----------------------------------------------------------------------
>From: viro@weyl.math.psu.edu (Alexander Viro)
>Subject: [clue filters] Re: Debian - The Distribution from Hell
>Date: 23 Feb 2000 00:00:00 GMT
>Organization: -ENOENT
>
>[Warning: the following is true story and if the stuff below will ever
>become UI for you - accept my condolence. It _is_ scary, so think before
>reading further]
>
>Give them what I got yesterday. As in, box that got
>	a) Linux kernel running.
>	b) init and bash running.
>	c) serial and floppy - built as modules. And not loaded.
>	d) no sash.
>	e) no ethernet.
>	f) bloody large number-crunching that Should Not Be Aborted(tm).
>	g) libc and ld-linux.so - unlinked (self-LART by owner).