[vorbis-dev] ogg123, Chrismas release

[Segher Boessenkool]

"Kenneth C. Arnold" wrote:
> 
> Merry Christmas, Vorbis folks!

Same to you!

> Here's bunches of cleanups to ogg123. I haven't changed much in the
> raw code, mostly a few places with broken implementations. I'm also
> trying to cleanup some places where we assume too much, because ogg123
> might eventually be able to safely run suid (or sgid) (to access the
> audio devices).

You would have to audit all of Vorbis itself as well. If people want
to make ogg123 suid (to give world/group access to the playing Ogg on
the audio device), maybe they should just make the audio device world/
group writeable? Are there any _re`l_ problems with that?

Cheers,

Segher

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