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Date:      Thu, 14 Aug 2003 21:19:23 +0100
From:      Bruce M Simpson <bms@spc.org>
To:        Mike Hoskins <mike@adept.org>
Cc:        security@freebsd.org
Subject:   Re: realpath(3) et al
Message-ID:  <20030814201923.GB21219@spc.org>
In-Reply-To: <20030812180122.C96000@fubar.adept.org>
References:  <20030811133749.U27196@fubar.adept.org> <20030811232132.GB46629@madman.celabo.org> <20030812085617.GA407@FreeBSD.org> <20030812180122.C96000@fubar.adept.org>

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On Tue, Aug 12, 2003 at 06:06:32PM -0700, Mike Hoskins wrote:
> *sigh*  i'd hoped the project was 'always' ongoing, and that sharing
> and/or integrating changes amongst the various BSD source trees would be
> commonplace.  the fact that it's not clearly illustrates that our biggest
> enemey in the security game is ourselves.  (by 'selves' i mean anyone who
> feels not sharing a security or bug fix is a good idea.)

I think it would rock if we had more people cross-pollinating the BSDs in
general. Security fixes are no exception. I am thinking in particular of
the non-executable stack stuff in OpenBSD.

BMS



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