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Date:      Thu, 10 Mar 2005 12:45:01 -0500
From:      Brian Fundakowski Feldman <green@FreeBSD.org>
To:        Paul Richards <paul@originative.co.uk>
Cc:        "M. Warner Losh" <imp@bsdimp.com>
Subject:   Re: cvs commit: src/sys/compat/linux linux_socket.c
Message-ID:  <20050310174501.GF993@green.homeunix.org>
In-Reply-To: <20050310172050.GR98930@myrddin.originative.co.uk>
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On Thu, Mar 10, 2005 at 05:20:50PM +0000, Paul Richards wrote:
> On Thu, Mar 10, 2005 at 11:55:10AM -0500, Brian Fundakowski Feldman wrote:
> > 
> > How is this even a problem?  The company targets 5.3-RELEASE, period,
> > for all of 5.x.  They do not need to upgrade their build computer to
> > anything past RELENG_5_3 even in the face of security issues.
> 
> That really irritating bug that causes their development tools to
> crash is fixed in 5.5. Clearly they'll want to run with that later
> version.

This is a perfect strawman of a non-security fix that should be
applied to the RELENG_5_3 security branch, AFAICT.

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