From owner-freebsd-current@FreeBSD.ORG Fri Mar 26 12:26:16 2004 Return-Path: Delivered-To: freebsd-current@freebsd.org Received: from mx1.FreeBSD.org (mx1.freebsd.org [216.136.204.125]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id DD10016A4CE for ; Fri, 26 Mar 2004 12:26:16 -0800 (PST) Received: from carver.gumbysoft.com (carver.gumbysoft.com [66.220.23.50]) by mx1.FreeBSD.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id B120643D2D for ; Fri, 26 Mar 2004 12:26:16 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from dwhite@gumbysoft.com) Received: by carver.gumbysoft.com (Postfix, from userid 1000) id A7BB772DCB; Fri, 26 Mar 2004 12:26:16 -0800 (PST) Received: from localhost (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by carver.gumbysoft.com (Postfix) with ESMTP id A2F8572DB5; Fri, 26 Mar 2004 12:26:16 -0800 (PST) Date: Fri, 26 Mar 2004 12:26:16 -0800 (PST) From: Doug White To: Rafal Skoczylas In-Reply-To: <20040324215226.GA30596@secprog.org> Message-ID: <20040326122451.G61326@carver.gumbysoft.com> References: <20040323223020.GA2931@secprog.org> <20040324130129.A93167@alpha.siliconlandmark.com> <20040324215226.GA30596@secprog.org> MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=US-ASCII cc: freebsd-current@freebsd.org Subject: Re: [UFS] Broken suiddir? (+patch) X-BeenThere: freebsd-current@freebsd.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.1 Precedence: list List-Id: Discussions about the use of FreeBSD-current List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , X-List-Received-Date: Fri, 26 Mar 2004 20:26:17 -0000 On Wed, 24 Mar 2004, Rafal Skoczylas wrote: > Well, actually this is what I meant saying "obvious risk", i.e. you have > no clue who created the file and so on and so forth. > > What I would like to know is whether there exists any known issue eg. race > condition in the kernel (or something like that) i.e. something that poses > risk to the system but cannot be thought of because of the nature of the > problem (eg. there's some known "buggie" behavior that makes it risky to > use). To be honest, I'd love to hear the only known risks are those which > I call "obvious" ;) I suppose you'd like to know when natural disasters will hit for the next 5 years, and who'll win next years Super Bowl while I'm at it. :) "Known" races are probably documented in PRs, although we like to fix those rather than leave them laying around. -- Doug White | FreeBSD: The Power to Serve dwhite@gumbysoft.com | www.FreeBSD.org