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Date:      Sun, 22 Oct 1995 23:19:54 +0930 (CST)
From:      Michael Smith <msmith@atrad.adelaide.edu.au>
To:        davidg@Root.COM
Cc:        hsu@cs.hut.fi, jkh@time.cdrom.com, stable@freebsd.org
Subject:   Re: 2.1.0-951020-SNAP - 2.1 *Release Candidate*
Message-ID:  <199510221349.XAA00399@genesis.atrad.adelaide.edu.au>
In-Reply-To: <199510220601.XAA04220@corbin.Root.COM> from "David Greenman" at Oct 21, 95 11:01:53 pm

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David Greenman stands accused of saying:
>    I don't know if I consider this a "critical" bug, however, as it might be
> difficult to manifest during normal operations. I think that "slirp" must be
> doing something strange - like an fchown() on a TTY. I'll have to look into
> this in more detail.

Well, put it this waty: People use SLiRP because it's free, and because it
works very well.

On a small ISP system, say ~200 SLiRP callers a day, you can count on
at least one panic/crash/reboot a day.

I'd call this pretty serious 8)  

> -DG

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