From owner-freebsd-stable Thu Aug 29 13:36: 4 2002 Delivered-To: freebsd-stable@freebsd.org Received: from mx1.FreeBSD.org (mx1.FreeBSD.org [216.136.204.125]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 5A0CB37B400 for ; Thu, 29 Aug 2002 13:36:00 -0700 (PDT) Received: from valen.gwi.net (valen.gwi.net [207.5.128.33]) by mx1.FreeBSD.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 9778043E42 for ; Thu, 29 Aug 2002 13:35:59 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from jamin@gwi.net) Received: from dargo.gwi (dargo.gwi.net [207.5.142.21]) by valen.gwi.net (8.11.6/8.11.6) with ESMTP id g7TKZuN25968; Thu, 29 Aug 2002 16:35:57 -0400 (EDT) Date: Thu, 29 Aug 2002 16:35:53 -0400 (EDT) From: "Jamin A. Brown" To: Kris Kennaway Cc: freebsd-stable@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: What's *really* up with RELENG_4_6 In-Reply-To: <20020829190352.GB32639@xor.obsecurity.org> Message-ID: MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=US-ASCII Sender: owner-freebsd-stable@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk List-ID: List-Archive: (Web Archive) List-Help: (List Instructions) List-Subscribe: List-Unsubscribe: X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG On Thu, 29 Aug 2002, Kris Kennaway wrote: > On Thu, Aug 29, 2002 at 11:43:53AM -0400, Jamin A. Brown wrote: > > Hi all, > > > > I'm a bit confused about RELENG_4_6's UPDATING file and uname information: > > > > 20020814: > > FreeBSD 4.6.2-RELEASE. > > > > 20020813: p11 > > Bounds checking errors in accept(), getsockname(), > > getpeername(), and a VESA ioctl() command were corrected. > > > > > > > > FreeBSD darkness.gwi 4.6.2-RELEASE FreeBSD 4.6.2-RELEASE #0: Tue Aug 27 > > 08:42:03 EDT 2002 jamin@darkness.gwi:/usr/obj/usr/src/sys/DARKNESS > > i386 > > > > > > Now, I was under the impression that RELENG_4_* branches were to contain > > only bug fixes since RELEASE. However, 4.6.2 and 4.6.1, both of which have > > showed up in RELENG_4_6, contain new features. > ^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^ > Upon what are you basing this assertion? I had thought, give normal development procedure, that 4.6.2 was cut from stable, just like all other RELEASES. I also thought I remember STABLE being frozen for 4.6.2-RELEASE, which would indicate that the new features would have made it into 4.6.2. My memory must be going. If so, I apologize. Jamin To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-stable" in the body of the message