From owner-freebsd-security Sat Feb 28 11:02:10 1998 Return-Path: Received: (from majordom@localhost) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.8/8.8.8) id LAA07088 for freebsd-security-outgoing; Sat, 28 Feb 1998 11:02:10 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from owner-freebsd-security@FreeBSD.ORG) Received: from ns.mt.sri.com (sri-gw.MT.net [206.127.105.141]) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.8/8.8.8) with ESMTP id LAA07074 for ; Sat, 28 Feb 1998 11:02:03 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from nate@mt.sri.com) Received: from mt.sri.com (rocky.mt.sri.com [206.127.76.100]) by ns.mt.sri.com (8.8.8/8.8.8) with SMTP id MAA08223; Sat, 28 Feb 1998 12:02:00 -0700 (MST) (envelope-from nate@rocky.mt.sri.com) Received: by mt.sri.com (SMI-8.6/SMI-SVR4) id MAA10911; Sat, 28 Feb 1998 12:01:58 -0700 Date: Sat, 28 Feb 1998 12:01:58 -0700 Message-Id: <199802281901.MAA10911@mt.sri.com> From: Nate Williams MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit To: Cy Schubert - ITSD Open Systems Group Cc: Garrett Wollman , freebsd-security@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: OpenBSD Security Advisory: mmap() Problem In-Reply-To: <199802280635.WAA02412@cwsys.cwsent.com> References: <199802280235.VAA07394@khavrinen.lcs.mit.edu> <199802280635.WAA02412@cwsys.cwsent.com> X-Mailer: VM 6.29 under 19.15 XEmacs Lucid Sender: owner-freebsd-security@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk > > Thereby perpetuating the original bug. I'd rather ask Xi to fix their > > server; if we ask nicely, they'll probably comply (since the behavior > > in question is clearly bogus). If not, then the behavior should be > > optional on ``COMPAT_XACCEL_BUG'' and not enabled by default. > > I've already talked to them about the upcoming release of their new products. > They've told me that they're dropping support for FreeBSD and focusing on > Linux because FreeBSD doesn't sell X servers. *sigh* I've bought every version of their software they've made, and paid full price. But, as of late, it appears that they aren't doing so well per the inability to get through to tech-support, so that may be why things are being 'cut-back'. Nate To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe security" in the body of the message