From owner-cvs-all Fri Apr 6 12:59:19 2001 Delivered-To: cvs-all@freebsd.org Received: from mail.rpi.edu (mail.rpi.edu [128.113.22.40]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 4EE8D37B424; Fri, 6 Apr 2001 12:59:12 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from drosih@rpi.edu) Received: from [128.113.24.47] (gilead.acs.rpi.edu [128.113.24.47]) by mail.rpi.edu (8.11.3/8.11.3) with ESMTP id f36Jx6o123238; Fri, 6 Apr 2001 15:59:06 -0400 Mime-Version: 1.0 X-Sender: drosih@mail.rpi.edu Message-Id: In-Reply-To: <42985.986581824@critter> References: <42985.986581824@critter> Date: Fri, 6 Apr 2001 15:59:04 -0400 To: Poul-Henning Kamp , bmah@FreeBSD.org From: Garance A Drosihn Subject: Re: cvs commit: src/contrib/ntp/ntpd ntp_control.c Cc: "Rodney W. Grimes" , jedgar@FreeBSD.org (Chris D. Faulhaber), cvs-committers@FreeBSD.org, cvs-all@FreeBSD.org Content-Type: text/plain; charset="us-ascii" ; format="flowed" Sender: owner-cvs-all@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG At 8:30 PM +0200 4/6/01, Poul-Henning Kamp wrote: >I'm sorry my patch wasn't perfect, it was intended as a stopgap >only, and I think it fulfilled that role. As others have pointed >out, the entire file has numerous dubious fragments of code which >should be scrutinized. >I hate even more for such an exploit to be released in public >with no warning, and even more so when it comes at a time where >I have negative time available on my schedule :-( Personally, I thought it was quite impressive to have any patch available on such short notice. Yeah, "perfect" would have been nicer, but "merely adequate and immediately available" was very much appreciated... -- Garance Alistair Drosehn = gad@eclipse.acs.rpi.edu Senior Systems Programmer or gad@freebsd.org Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute or drosih@rpi.edu To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe cvs-all" in the body of the message