From owner-freebsd-hackers Fri Nov 14 16:10:12 1997 Return-Path: Received: (from root@localhost) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.7/8.8.7) id QAA14692 for hackers-outgoing; Fri, 14 Nov 1997 16:10:12 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from owner-freebsd-hackers) Received: from ns.mt.sri.com (sri-gw.MT.net [206.127.105.141]) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.7/8.8.7) with ESMTP id QAA14680 for ; Fri, 14 Nov 1997 16:10:08 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from nate@rocky.mt.sri.com) Received: from rocky.mt.sri.com (rocky.mt.sri.com [206.127.76.100]) by ns.mt.sri.com (8.8.8/8.8.8) with ESMTP id RAA00413; Fri, 14 Nov 1997 17:10:00 -0700 (MST) (envelope-from nate@rocky.mt.sri.com) Received: (from nate@localhost) by rocky.mt.sri.com (8.7.5/8.7.3) id RAA17065; Fri, 14 Nov 1997 17:09:59 -0700 (MST) Date: Fri, 14 Nov 1997 17:09:59 -0700 (MST) Message-Id: <199711150009.RAA17065@rocky.mt.sri.com> From: Nate Williams MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit To: Julian Elischer Cc: "Jordan K. Hubbard" , hackers@freebsd.org Subject: Re: SUID-Directories patch In-Reply-To: <346CDDE4.5656AEC7@whistle.com> References: <9942.879515612@time.cdrom.com> <346CDDE4.5656AEC7@whistle.com> X-Mailer: VM 6.29 under 19.15 XEmacs Lucid Sender: owner-freebsd-hackers@freebsd.org X-Loop: FreeBSD.org Precedence: bulk > On January 1 I will be checking in (with permission) a whole extra > branch of the networking code. > It will be (it is already) complete and working. > it has been in SERIOUS production in 2.2 for most of a year. It has been working in the Whistle version of 2.2, which is different from FreeBSD 2.2. > it requires no edits to external files other than > /sys/conf/files yet it really makes most sense for this to go to > 2.2.x first, and then migrate to 3.0, because it's been running in 2.2 > for 9 months but has never been tested on 3.0. > > what's the consensus on this? Bring it into 3.0. The 2.* branch is only for bugfixes and security problems. No 'new functionality' should ever be brought directly into 2.2. Nate