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Date:      Mon, 31 Oct 2005 16:26:56 +0300 (MSK)
From:      Igor Sysoev <is@rambler-co.ru>
To:        Maxim Konovalov <maxim@macomnet.ru>
Cc:        Edwin Groothuis <edwin@mavetju.org>, "Cai, Quanqing" <caiquanqing@gmail.com>, Uwe Doering <gemini@geminix.org>, bug-followup@freebsd.org, freebsd-current@freebsd.org
Subject:   Re: kern/67919: Why nobody take serious to fix this bug?
Message-ID:  <20051031162438.I554@is.park.rambler.ru>
In-Reply-To: <20051031144056.A92356@mp2.macomnet.net>
References:  <2b22951e0510302128q571a3c1se111262e88ae19bb@mail.gmail.com> <20051031144056.A92356@mp2.macomnet.net>

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On Mon, 31 Oct 2005, Maxim Konovalov wrote:

> On Sun, 30 Oct 2005, 21:28-0800, Cai, Quanqing wrote:
>
>> Today I happened to read this message on freebsd-stable:
>> http://lists.freebsd.org/pipermail/freebsd-stable/2005-October/019086.html
>>
>> After I read all messages and related links, I feel so frustrating,
>> why nobody take serious to fix this bug even we have a patch for it?
>> I can repeat this bug on 7.0-CURRENT and 6.0-RC1 easily as a normal
>> user! System goes no response so I have to power cycle it. The patch
>> made by Uwe Doering actually works well. This bug looks like a
>> security hole to me:( If you guys don't like this patch, please give
>> out a reason and come out a better patch or solution.
>
> I was told the patch is incorrect.  It works in certain cases but
> incorrect in general.

Why is it incorrect ? I'm using it for year.


Igor Sysoev
http://sysoev.ru/en/



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