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From: guido@gvr.win.tue.nl (Guido van Rooij)
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Subject: Re: syslog patches?
To: peter@haywire.dialix.com (Peter Wemm)
Date: Mon, 4 Sep 1995 12:06:35 +0200 (MET DST)
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In-Reply-To: <42efse$fts$1@haywire.DIALix.COM> from "Peter Wemm" at Sep 4, 95 05:11:42 pm
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> 
> But whatever the case, something *has* to go in, because if we ship
> 2.1 with the buggy version, because of the identical binaries on each
> system, somebody *will* calculate the offsets and the code to subvert
> 2.1R. 
> 

That is exactly why I brought this up.  I also like the Allman fix. Not
because it is better or worse, but because more ppl use it.

-Guido