Re: email-based regression search server

[Phil Edwards <phil at jaj dot com>]

On Thu, Feb 06, 2003 at 09:54:32AM +0200, Bernd Jendrissek wrote:
> > just a compiler, and I didn't preserve the drivers.  I can start doing
> > so, but I've got 6GB of cc1* already.  And the driver wouldn't be enough;
> 
> 6GB!  I wouldn't have expected that...

Around 11MB for cc1 and 13MB for cc1plus, for most every day back to October,
for the major branches.


> > chroot'd environment, but it would still bother me.  Doing this would,
> > eventually, not be different than simply giving out universal shell access.
> 
> ... shell access with a development environment.  :(

Yeah, the security people at my job are always on about "development
environments".  As if simple shell access doesn't let you scp an entire
toolchain into your account already.


Phil

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