Date: Fri, 6 Apr 2001 15:59:04 -0400 From: Garance A Drosihn <drosih@rpi.edu> To: Poul-Henning Kamp <phk@critter.freebsd.dk>, bmah@FreeBSD.org Cc: "Rodney W. Grimes" <freebsd@gndrsh.dnsmgr.net>, jedgar@FreeBSD.org (Chris D. Faulhaber), cvs-committers@FreeBSD.org, cvs-all@FreeBSD.org Subject: Re: cvs commit: src/contrib/ntp/ntpd ntp_control.c Message-ID: <p05100909b6f3cc11a8c2@[128.113.24.47]> In-Reply-To: <42985.986581824@critter> References: <42985.986581824@critter>
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At 8:30 PM +0200 4/6/01, Poul-Henning Kamp wrote: >I'm sorry my patch wasn't perfect, it was intended as a stopgap >only, and I think it fulfilled that role. As others have pointed >out, the entire file has numerous dubious fragments of code which >should be scrutinized. >I hate even more for such an exploit to be released in public >with no warning, and even more so when it comes at a time where >I have negative time available on my schedule :-( Personally, I thought it was quite impressive to have any patch available on such short notice. Yeah, "perfect" would have been nicer, but "merely adequate and immediately available" was very much appreciated... -- Garance Alistair Drosehn = gad@eclipse.acs.rpi.edu Senior Systems Programmer or gad@freebsd.org Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute or drosih@rpi.edu To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe cvs-all" in the body of the message
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