From owner-freebsd-security Thu Dec 2 13:22: 9 1999 Delivered-To: freebsd-security@freebsd.org Received: from ind.alcatel.com (postal.xylan.com [208.8.0.248]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id EC913151BE; Thu, 2 Dec 1999 13:21:59 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from wes@softweyr.com) Received: from mailhub.xylan.com (mailhub [198.206.181.70]) by ind.alcatel.com (8.9.3+Sun/8.9.1 (ind.alcatel.com 3.0 [OUT])) with SMTP id NAA14882; Thu, 2 Dec 1999 13:19:10 -0800 (PST) X-Origination-Site: Received: from omni.xylan.com by mailhub.xylan.com (SMI-8.6/SMI-SVR4 (mailhub 2.1 [HUB])) id NAA15335; Thu, 2 Dec 1999 13:19:10 -0800 Received: from softweyr.com (dyn0.utah.xylan.com) by omni.xylan.com (4.1/SMI-4.1 (xylan engr [SPOOL])) id AA11707; Thu, 2 Dec 99 13:19:01 PST Message-Id: <3846E24D.FCDA7AC1@softweyr.com> Date: Thu, 02 Dec 1999 14:19:09 -0700 From: Wes Peters Organization: Softweyr LLC X-Mailer: Mozilla 4.61 [en] (X11; I; FreeBSD 3.3-RELEASE i386) X-Accept-Language: en Mime-Version: 1.0 To: Steve Reid Cc: Sheldon Hearn , Bill Swingle , security@FreeBSD.ORG, Jordan Hubbard Subject: Re: [btellier@USA.NET: Several FreeBSD-3.3 vulnerabilities] References: <19991202032121.A7470@grok.localnet> <67349.944133898@axl.noc.iafrica.com> <19991202052242.C7470@grok.localnet> Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Sender: owner-freebsd-security@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.org Steve Reid wrote: > > On Thu, Dec 02, 1999 at 01:24:58PM +0200, Sheldon Hearn wrote: > > If you're not going to badger a port's maintainer until he/she does > > something, you're unlikely to get results out of a single request. > > That's why the PR system is good. The PR sits there pissing us off > > until someone does something about it. :-) > > In my case I don't think it would've made a difference. Something _was_ > done about it, but it was a halfway job. If it had been reported via a > PR the PR would probably have been closed. Actually, this is a problem in the canonical FreeBSD usage of PRs. PRs should generally be closed by the person REPORTING the PR. When a developer thinks they have the problem fixed, they should put the PR in "feedback" and let the ORIGINATOR close the PR. -- "Where am I, and what am I doing in this handbasket?" Wes Peters Softweyr LLC wes@softweyr.com http://softweyr.com/ To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-security" in the body of the message