Date: Sun, 15 Dec 2002 10:55:54 -0800 (PST) From: Matthew Dillon <dillon@apollo.backplane.com> To: Anders Nordby <anders@FreeBSD.ORG> Cc: "M. Warner Losh" <imp@bsdimp.com>, sam@errno.com, mux@FreeBSD.ORG, obrien@FreeBSD.ORG, current@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: ipfw userland breaks again. Message-ID: <200212151855.gBFItsQ1081646@apollo.backplane.com> References: <200212142351.gBENpBVH002931@apollo.backplane.com> <23f401c2a3ce$2a6e7e30$52557f42@errno.com> <200212150015.gBF0FlbS066547@apollo.backplane.com> <20021215.111441.05985858.imp@bsdimp.com> <200212151826.gBFIQMpo081407@apollo.backplane.com> <20021215185051.GA55072@totem.fix.no>
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:How about sending the patch to the Technical Review Board, trb@ instead.
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:Thanks.
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:Cheers,
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:Anders.
Getting bored sitting on your buns? It's already gone to core and,
frankly, I think core is the proper forum now that Warner has declared
it a security issue (when it obviously isn't. How easy is it to do
an ipfw add 2 allow all from any to any? It's ludicrous to call it
a security issue).
I really don't mind people disagreeing, but I do mind it when people
believe that the proper solution is for Matt Dillon to spend a man week
fixing a major API that he didn't write instead of comitting an 8 line
patch that deals with the issue well enough so sysads don't have to
pull their hair out every time it happens.
As I said before, I have no problem with the patch being removed once
the API is fixed, but I am NOT the guy who should be rewriting the API
and, frankly, it is inappropriate for anyone to suggest that I should
be if they themselves are not willing to sit down in front of a
keyboard and come up with a committable solution of their own. So far
all I've heard are utterly trivial complaints from people who aren't
willing to code up a solution themselves.
-Matt
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