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From: Dean Hollister <dean@odyssey.apana.org.au>
To: "Jordan K. Hubbard" <jkh@time.cdrom.com>
cc: Marius Bendiksen <Marius.Bendiksen@scancall.no>,
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Subject: Re: Huge Bug in FreeBSD not fixed? 
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On Tue, 11 Aug 1998, Jordan K. Hubbard wrote:

> I ran this thing 20 times, with and without the -harder option, and it
> did absolutely nothing to my box.  Just goes to show, these things
> generally constitute fairly apocryphal evidence without a lot more
> details.  Also, just for the record, people have attacked freefall
> many times.  Just because someone said he was going to nuke you one
> day and it worked (and I have no idea how seriously well-maintained
> your systems are from a security fascist's perspective) is by no means
> an indication that it works every time or in every circumstance. :-)

I did the same on odyssey, running 2.2.7-STABLE and make
build/installworld done 7 days ago.

On all executions, lots of scrolling text...

...no kernel panicks.

Then again, these sorts of hoaxes can be entertaining. ;-)

Regards,

d.

+-------------------------------------------------------+
| Dean Hollister,           | dean@mushka.ml.org        |
| Perth, Western Australia. | dean@wa.apana.org.au      |
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