Date: Sun, 19 Sep 1999 08:27:18 +0200 From: Poul-Henning Kamp <phk@critter.freebsd.dk> To: Matthew Dillon <dillon@apollo.backplane.com> Cc: "Rodney W. Grimes" <freebsd@gndrsh.dnsmgr.net>, imp@village.org (Warner Losh), liam@tiora.net (Liam Slusser), kdrobnac@mission.mvnc.edu (Kenny Drobnack), Harry_M_Leitzell@cmu.edu (Harry M. Leitzell), security@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: BPF on in 3.3-RC GENERIC kernel Message-ID: <14489.937722438@critter.freebsd.dk> In-Reply-To: Your message of "Sat, 18 Sep 1999 22:51:14 PDT." <199909190551.WAA68627@apollo.backplane.com>
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In message <199909190551.WAA68627@apollo.backplane.com>, Matthew Dillon writes: > It is especially important that system calls be constructed with > future binary compatibility issues in mind, especially if they > become widely adopted. You have not proved or even shown that changing this particular element will be enough to guarantee that we can support other protocols in the future. The only thing that can be done to the jail(2) syscall to improve it in that respect is to add a version number as the first element, I would have no problem with that. -- Poul-Henning Kamp FreeBSD coreteam member phk@FreeBSD.ORG "Real hackers run -current on their laptop." FreeBSD -- It will take a long time before progress goes too far! To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-security" in the body of the message
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