Date: Wed, 27 Sep 2000 14:43:39 -0700 From: Alfred Perlstein <bright@wintelcom.net> To: Mike Silbersack <silby@silby.com> Cc: Kris Kennaway <kris@FreeBSD.ORG>, sigma@pair.com, freebsd-security@FreeBSD.ORG, green@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: Status of FreeBSD-SA-00:41.elf? Message-ID: <20000927144339.F9141@fw.wintelcom.net> In-Reply-To: <Pine.BSF.4.21.0009271538380.52470-100000@achilles.silby.com>; from silby@silby.com on Wed, Sep 27, 2000 at 04:38:11PM -0500 References: <Pine.BSF.4.21.0009271256570.81104-100000@freefall.freebsd.org> <Pine.BSF.4.21.0009271538380.52470-100000@achilles.silby.com>
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* Mike Silbersack <silby@silby.com> [000927 14:38] wrote: > > On Wed, 27 Sep 2000, Kris Kennaway wrote: > > > The issue is that most FreeBSD developers do not have a 3.5 machine > > available for testing - BSDi were supposed to be setting up one for us to > > use but it has not yet come through. This makes it very hard to test > > security fixes to the 3.5 branch so we don't break it by just committing > > blindly (in fact, I think we should officially drop security support for > > the 3.x branch because in practise it's not being supported for security > > fixes). I believe the problem is still not fixed in 3.5-STABLE at this > > time. > > One of the features of FreeBSD which I've found appealing in comparison to > the linuxes I've seen is the relative ease of upgrade and assurance that > your base system is secure after a simple buildworld/installworld. I > think that losing this feature for any version more than three months old > would be a serious blow to the confidence of FreeBSD users > everywhere. > [snip] Before everyone goes off the deep end: http://www.freebsd.org/cgi/cvsweb.cgi/src/lib/libc/net/res_send.c Revision 1.25.2.2 / (download) - annotate - [select for diffs] , Sat Sep 23 22:48:45 2000 UTC (3 days, 22 hours ago) by alfred People are working on 3.x, just because a single developer doesn't have the reasources at the moment to address a problem doesn't mean we aren't addressing the issues. -- -Alfred Perlstein - [bright@wintelcom.net|alfred@freebsd.org] "I have the heart of a child; I keep it in a jar on my desk." To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-security" in the body of the message
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