From owner-freebsd-stable Fri Sep 21 16:15:27 2001 Delivered-To: freebsd-stable@freebsd.org Received: from falcon.mail.pas.earthlink.net (falcon.mail.pas.earthlink.net [207.217.120.74]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 9264C37B41D for ; Fri, 21 Sep 2001 16:15:09 -0700 (PDT) Received: from blossom.cjclark.org (dialup-209.245.132.192.Dial1.SanJose1.Level3.net [209.245.132.192]) by falcon.mail.pas.earthlink.net (8.11.5/8.9.3) with ESMTP id f8LNEt317839; Fri, 21 Sep 2001 16:14:57 -0700 (PDT) Received: (from cjc@localhost) by blossom.cjclark.org (8.11.4/8.11.3) id f8LMK9Y02778; Fri, 21 Sep 2001 15:20:09 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from cjc) Date: Fri, 21 Sep 2001 15:20:09 -0700 From: "Crist J. Clark" To: chip@chocobo.cx Cc: stable@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: mergemaster goes postal / MAKEDEV problems Message-ID: <20010921152009.D980@blossom.cjclark.org> Reply-To: cjclark@alum.mit.edu References: <3BAA3B47.6000308@gmx.net> <3BAA0757.BF52C720@dp.abacus.co.uk> <20010921125059.A19142@mezcal.tue.le> <20010921104319.A8395@setzer.chocobo.cx> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Disposition: inline User-Agent: Mutt/1.2.5i In-Reply-To: <20010921104319.A8395@setzer.chocobo.cx>; from chip@setzer.chocobo.cx on Fri, Sep 21, 2001 at 10:43:19AM -0400 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 Fri, Sep 21, 2001 at 10:43:19AM -0400, Chip Marshall wrote: > On September 21, 2001, Thomas Zenker sent me the following: > > > > Looks to me as if this is a really old bug surfacing here. Reference > > > > > > > > http://www.freebsd.org/cgi/query-pr.cgi?pr=30637 > > > > > > > > and > > > > > > > > http://www.freebsd.org/cgi/query-pr.cgi?pr=24443 > > > > > > Is the above PR a reasonable fix and is it safe for people to apply this > > > change to /usr/src/bin/sh/expand.c ? > > > > > > If it is a good fix - any chance it would be committed? > > > > yes, that's it: > > And will it be put on the RELENG_4_4 branch? Unlikely, it is not a critical security fix. -- Crist J. Clark cjclark@alum.mit.edu To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-stable" in the body of the message