Date: Tue, 7 Mar 2006 18:09:59 +0100 (CET) From: <pfgshield-freebsd@yahoo.com> To: Kris Kennaway <kris@obsecurity.org> Cc: freebsd-emulation@FreeBSD.org Subject: Re: kern/91293: [svr4] [patch] *Experimental* Update to the SVR4 emulation (from NetBSD) Message-ID: <20060307170959.29546.qmail@web32715.mail.mud.yahoo.com> In-Reply-To: <20060307162753.GC64610@xor.obsecurity.org>
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--- Kris Kennaway <kris@obsecurity.org> ha scritto: ... > > > > What is left on the patch at this point are only bug fixes to panics and > > overflows from the NetBSD port. This is not something I can test on amd64 > and > > rebuilding a kernel on qemu is painfully slow. > > Unfortunately this makes it unlikely anyone will commit your fixes, > since they're untested. > They are tested... on NetBSD. In any case it's not easy to find an application that will exercise a buffer overflow or a fix in sysconf. I'm actually in no hurry for getting them committed, I'm satisfied that there IS a patch and someone wanting to work on this will find it easier to catch on. That said, I will probably try reinstalling 1386 in the future. cheers, Pedro. ___________________________________ Yahoo! Mail: gratis 1GB per i messaggi e allegati da 10MB http://mail.yahoo.it
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