From owner-freebsd-hackers Wed Dec 5 15:14: 6 2001 Delivered-To: freebsd-hackers@freebsd.org Received: from pintail.mail.pas.earthlink.net (pintail.mail.pas.earthlink.net [207.217.120.122]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 5F05237B417 for ; Wed, 5 Dec 2001 15:14:04 -0800 (PST) Received: from dialup-209.244.107.135.dial1.sanjose1.level3.net ([209.244.107.135] helo=blossom.cjclark.org) by pintail.mail.pas.earthlink.net with esmtp (Exim 3.33 #1) id 16BlEo-00058E-00; Wed, 05 Dec 2001 15:14:03 -0800 Received: (from cjc@localhost) by blossom.cjclark.org (8.11.6/8.11.3) id fB5NCgo04822; Wed, 5 Dec 2001 15:12:42 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from cjc) Date: Wed, 5 Dec 2001 15:12:29 -0800 From: "Crist J . Clark" To: Leo Bicknell Cc: freebsd-hackers@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: Can TCP changes be put in RELENG_4? Message-ID: <20011205151229.H3061@blossom.cjclark.org> References: <200112050034.fB50Y2W35371@w2xo.pgh.pa.us> <20011205131903.A32485@ussenterprise.ufp.org> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Disposition: inline User-Agent: Mutt/1.2.5i In-Reply-To: <20011205131903.A32485@ussenterprise.ufp.org>; from bicknell@ufp.org on Wed, Dec 05, 2001 at 01:19:03PM -0500 X-URL: http://people.freebsd.org/~cjc/ Sender: owner-freebsd-hackers@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk List-ID: List-Archive: (Web Archive) List-Help: (List Instructions) List-Subscribe: List-Unsubscribe: X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG On Wed, Dec 05, 2001 at 01:19:03PM -0500, Leo Bicknell wrote: > On Tue, Dec 04, 2001 at 11:48:52AM -0500, Jim Durham wrote: > > I know that only security fixes are supposed to go in RELENG_4, but > > the recent changes in the TCP stuff seem important enough that > > perhaps they could be put in RELENG_4 for those of us who run > > productions servers on -RELEASE ? > > After reading the replies a bit, I'm going to suggest some middle > ground. > > I think the changes should sit in stable for "a while", and while > they are there we should make notes of it in a few different places > and have people beat up on the changes with various tests. > > I think this is very good stuff, and that most of the people > tracking RELENG4_4 would want it, but only if it is 210% fully > tested and helps out 99.999% of all people. So let's verify > both of those and then revisit the issue. 4.5-RELEASE is only a month and a half away. By the time this "while" passes, we'll be there. If people have lived this long with the bugs, they can last until late January. -- "It's always funny until someone gets hurt. Then it's hilarious." Crist J. Clark | cjclark@alum.mit.edu | cjclark@jhu.edu http://people.freebsd.org/~cjc/ | cjc@freebsd.org To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-hackers" in the body of the message