From owner-freebsd-security Wed May 13 04:49:55 1998 Return-Path: Received: (from majordom@localhost) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.8/8.8.8) id EAA14589 for freebsd-security-outgoing; Wed, 13 May 1998 04:49:55 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from owner-freebsd-security@FreeBSD.ORG) Received: from cheops.anu.edu.au (avalon@cheops.anu.edu.au [150.203.76.24]) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.8/8.8.8) with ESMTP id EAA14554 for ; Wed, 13 May 1998 04:49:32 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from avalon@coombs.anu.edu.au) Message-Id: <199805131149.EAA14554@hub.freebsd.org> Received: by cheops.anu.edu.au (1.37.109.16/16.2) id AA035090129; Wed, 13 May 1998 21:48:49 +1000 From: Darren Reed Subject: Re: Why aren't security fixes posted to security-announce? To: guido@gvr.org (Guido van Rooij) Date: Wed, 13 May 1998 21:48:49 +1000 (EST) Cc: fpscha@schapachnik.com.ar, freebsd-security@FreeBSD.ORG In-Reply-To: <199805121925.VAA19992@gvr.gvr.org> from "Guido van Rooij" at May 12, 98 09:25:05 pm X-Mailer: ELM [version 2.4 PL23] Content-Type: text Sender: owner-freebsd-security@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk In some mail from Guido van Rooij, sie said: > > In general, security related patches are first applied to -current. > After about a week or so, they are brought to -stable. The an > advisory will be sent out. Why? Because an advisory without a decently > tested patch would upset users. I haven't seen a commit message yet for the mmap bug... To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe security" in the body of the message