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From: Guido van Rooij <guido@gvr.org>
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Subject: Re: Why aren't security fixes posted to security-announce?
In-Reply-To: <199805131149.EAA14554@hub.freebsd.org> from Darren Reed at "May 13, 98 09:48:49 pm"
To: avalon@coombs.anu.edu.au (Darren Reed)
Date: Thu, 14 May 1998 22:23:05 +0200 (MET DST)
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Darren Reed wrote:
> 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...

Will arrive soon. I was just busy with the ttcp advisory.

-Guido

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