[Wine] Alexandre says "let the newbies run as root"

[Dan Kegel]

I don't agree with him, but there you have it.


---------- Forwarded message ----------
From: Alexandre Julliard <julliard at winehq.org>
Date: Fri, Mar 21, 2008 at 1:32 AM
Subject: Re: loader: more stringent sanity check
To: Dan Kegel <dank at kegel.com>
Cc: wine-devel at winehq.org


"Dan Kegel" <dank at kegel.com> writes:


> Many, many newbies are running wine as root without
 > really needing to.  They are much more likely to screw
 > up their systems this way.  Are you saying we should stop
 > advising against this?

 I have seen very little evidence that anybody screwed up their system by
 running Wine as root, I think that's just paranoia. Of course it's
 possible in theory, but you can screw up your system by running 'cat' as
 root too, that doesn't mean it needs a warning.

 Pretty much the only case I'm aware of is someone's system rebooting
 because an app was searching through /proc and triggered the watchdog.
 That shouldn't be hard to avoid, and it's really minor compared to the
 thousands of people who reboot their box as normal users just by
 starting OpenGL.

 So yes, I'd say stop the "don't run as root" crusade, and fix the actual
 problems that running as root causes, if there are any.

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Alexandre Julliard
 julliard at winehq.org