Date: Fri, 14 Nov 1997 01:18:20 +0000 (GMT) From: Terry Lambert <tlambert@primenet.com> To: sos@FreeBSD.dk Cc: julian@whistle.com, hackers@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: SUID-Directories patch Message-ID: <199711140118.SAA18982@usr08.primenet.com> In-Reply-To: <199711132135.WAA00279@sos.freebsd.dk> from "S?ren Schmidt" at Nov 13, 97 10:35:28 pm
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> > I'd like to move this to 2.2.x > > > > It is all hidden behind #ifdef SUIDDIR > > so I can guarantee that it won't BREAK anything. > > > > I really need it n 2.2 rather than 3.0 so I'd like to merge it in from > > -current later thes afternoon if I don't hear any objections. > > Objection. If you need this for Whistle, you should keep it in your > own tree, its does NOT belong in the generic FreeBSD tree. Time to move the boot code into the Whistle tree and take it out of the FreeBSD tree? (Whistle needs boot code, too..). One of the main incentives for commercial entities to give code back is offloading of maintenance. You can of course pick and choose what you want to take, but the fix seems generically useful (expecially the kernel vs. exported flags stuff that it requires to make it work, which frees up 13 bits(!) in the external flags for yet more mount options (like the rather less useful -- but still useful -- symbolic link defeating options). Terry Lambert terry@lambert.org --- Any opinions in this posting are my own and not those of my present or previous employers.
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