Re: possible viri in tarballs?

[Gene Heskett]

On Wednesday 05 February 2014, Roger Heflin wrote:
>Gene,
>
>How big is the file you have?      Here is what I have, and this is
>from several different kernels.
>
> wc gadget_multi.txt
> 150  830 5482 gadget_multi.tx
>
>cksum gadget_multi.txt
>3973522114 5482 gadget_multi.txt
>
>ls -l gadget_multi.txt
>-rw-rw-r-- 1 root root 5482 Dec 20 09:51 gadget_multi.txt
>
>If you size/cksum is different something modified your file

They crosscheck as identical to yours.
>
>On Wed, Feb 5, 2014 at 1:52 PM, Theodore Ts'o <tytso@xxxxxxx> wrote:
>> On Wed, Feb 05, 2014 at 01:24:59PM -0500, Gene Heskett wrote:
>>> >/home/gene/src/linux-3.2.40/Documentation/usb/gadget_multi.txt:
>>> >MBL_400944.UNOFFICIAL FOUND
>>> 
>>> You will see more history.
>>> 
>>> So that file needs sanitized.  I was under the impression that a file
>>> with the .txt extension was supposed to be pure ascii text, but its
>>> loaded to the gills with some sort of markup crap.  And I have at
>>> least 20 copies of it.
>> 
>> Huh?   There are lines with
>> 
>> * Overview
>> 
>> ...
>> 
>> ** Linux host drivers
>> 
>> ...
>> 
>> in that file, sure.  But I'd hardly call that "loaded to the gills
>> with markup crap".
>> 
>> If the file was had any amount of XML or XHTML2, that would be markup
>> crap.  But some Twiki style ascii markup is hardly a problem -- it
>> looks just fine when viewed in a text reader.
>> 
>>                                  - Ted
>> 
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