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Subject: Re: Protecting against kernel NULL-pointer derefs
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Matt Dawson <matt@chronos.org.uk> writes:
> Dag-Erling Sm=C3=B8rgrav <des@des.no> writes:
> > there must be a better way to make your case than to sow FUD?
> Where? To paraphrase yourself: Please define "sowing FUD." There's an iss=
ue;=20
> there have been two previously.

Pieter strongly implied that there had been *numerous* such cases, when
in fact there hasn't.

DES
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Dag-Erling Sm=C3=B8rgrav - des@des.no