From owner-freebsd-emulation@FreeBSD.ORG Tue Mar 7 17:22:50 2006 Return-Path: X-Original-To: freebsd-emulation@FreeBSD.org Delivered-To: freebsd-emulation@FreeBSD.org Received: from mx1.FreeBSD.org (mx1.freebsd.org [216.136.204.125]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id CE6C416A420 for ; Tue, 7 Mar 2006 17:22:50 +0000 (GMT) (envelope-from kris@obsecurity.org) Received: from elvis.mu.org (elvis.mu.org [192.203.228.196]) by mx1.FreeBSD.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 8716B43D45 for ; Tue, 7 Mar 2006 17:22:50 +0000 (GMT) (envelope-from kris@obsecurity.org) Received: from obsecurity.dyndns.org (elvis.mu.org [192.203.228.196]) by elvis.mu.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 71ADA1A4E5A; Tue, 7 Mar 2006 09:22:50 -0800 (PST) Received: by obsecurity.dyndns.org (Postfix, from userid 1000) id 4FDB9514BD; Tue, 7 Mar 2006 12:22:48 -0500 (EST) Date: Tue, 7 Mar 2006 12:22:48 -0500 From: Kris Kennaway To: pfgshield-freebsd@yahoo.com Message-ID: <20060307172247.GA9334@xor.obsecurity.org> References: <20060307162753.GC64610@xor.obsecurity.org> <20060307170959.29546.qmail@web32715.mail.mud.yahoo.com> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: multipart/signed; micalg=pgp-sha1; protocol="application/pgp-signature"; boundary="yrj/dFKFPuw6o+aM" Content-Disposition: inline In-Reply-To: <20060307170959.29546.qmail@web32715.mail.mud.yahoo.com> User-Agent: Mutt/1.4.2.1i Cc: freebsd-emulation@FreeBSD.org, Kris Kennaway Subject: Re: kern/91293: [svr4] [patch] *Experimental* Update to the SVR4 emulation (from NetBSD) X-BeenThere: freebsd-emulation@freebsd.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.5 Precedence: list List-Id: Development of Emulators of other operating systems List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , X-List-Received-Date: Tue, 07 Mar 2006 17:22:50 -0000 --yrj/dFKFPuw6o+aM Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Disposition: inline Content-Transfer-Encoding: quoted-printable On Tue, Mar 07, 2006 at 06:09:59PM +0100, pfgshield-freebsd@yahoo.com wrote: >=20 > --- Kris Kennaway ha scritto:=20 >=20 > ... > > >=20 > > > What is left on the patch at this point are only bug fixes to panics = and > > > overflows from the NetBSD port. This is not something I can test on a= md64 > > and > > > rebuilding a kernel on qemu is painfully slow. > >=20 > > Unfortunately this makes it unlikely anyone will commit your fixes, > > since they're untested. > >=20 >=20 > They are tested... on NetBSD. Right, which as you know is quite different to FreeBSD in many ways. > In any case it's not easy to find an application > that will exercise a buffer overflow or a fix in sysconf. As long as applications continue to work, it's enough. Kris --yrj/dFKFPuw6o+aM Content-Type: application/pgp-signature Content-Disposition: inline -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- Version: GnuPG v1.4.2.1 (FreeBSD) iD8DBQFEDcFnWry0BWjoQKURAs8rAKDPsB3oi6iWlKSx/AOqtHPHQXcpcwCdHm7q XplnbKas5C17reScQe2g7C4= =igLV -----END PGP SIGNATURE----- --yrj/dFKFPuw6o+aM--