Date: Fri, 14 Nov 1997 17:09:59 -0700 (MST) From: Nate Williams <nate@mt.sri.com> To: Julian Elischer <julian@whistle.com> Cc: "Jordan K. Hubbard" <jkh@time.cdrom.com>, hackers@freebsd.org Subject: Re: SUID-Directories patch Message-ID: <199711150009.RAA17065@rocky.mt.sri.com> In-Reply-To: <346CDDE4.5656AEC7@whistle.com> References: <9942.879515612@time.cdrom.com> <346CDDE4.5656AEC7@whistle.com>
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> On January 1 I will be checking in (with permission) a whole extra > branch of the networking code. > It will be (it is already) complete and working. > it has been in SERIOUS production in 2.2 for most of a year. It has been working in the Whistle version of 2.2, which is different from FreeBSD 2.2. > it requires no edits to external files other than > /sys/conf/files yet it really makes most sense for this to go to > 2.2.x first, and then migrate to 3.0, because it's been running in 2.2 > for 9 months but has never been tested on 3.0. > > what's the consensus on this? Bring it into 3.0. The 2.* branch is only for bugfixes and security problems. No 'new functionality' should ever be brought directly into 2.2. Nate
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