Date: Fri, 12 Mar 2004 14:22:42 -0800 From: Kris Kennaway <kris@obsecurity.org> To: Ruslan Ermilov <ru@FreeBSD.org> Cc: Kris Kennaway <kris@obsecurity.org> Subject: Re: cvs commit: src/sys/kern kern_exec.c Message-ID: <20040312222242.GA46557@xor.obsecurity.org> In-Reply-To: <20040312220439.GC4588@ip.net.ua> References: <200403122106.i2CL6Kb6090102@repoman.freebsd.org> <20040312215450.GB46054@xor.obsecurity.org> <20040312220439.GC4588@ip.net.ua>
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--Q68bSM7Ycu6FN28Q Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Disposition: inline Content-Transfer-Encoding: quoted-printable On Sat, Mar 13, 2004 at 12:04:39AM +0200, Ruslan Ermilov wrote: > On Fri, Mar 12, 2004 at 01:54:50PM -0800, Kris Kennaway wrote: > > On Fri, Mar 12, 2004 at 01:06:20PM -0800, Ruslan Ermilov wrote: > > > ru 2004/03/12 13:06:20 PST > > >=20 > > > FreeBSD src repository > > >=20 > > > Modified files: > > > sys/kern kern_exec.c=20 > > > Log: > > > Do what the execve(2) manpage says and enforce what a Strictly > > > Conforming POSIX application should do by disallowing the argv > > > argument to be NULL. > > > =20 > > > PR: kern/33738 > > > Submitted by: Marc Olzheim, Serge van den Boom > > > OK'ed by: nectar > >=20 > > Is this likely to break any third party software (e.g. ports)? If so, > > please bump __FreeBSD_version. > >=20 > It'll break only broken software, so I don't think the bump is in order. Well, that doesn't follow. When third party software suddenly stops running on FreeBSD, we need a way to predict in advance whether or not it will run on a given kernel -- whether the software is "broken" in an ideological sense or not. For example, we need to mark the port BROKEN on those versions of FreeBSD so the user doesn't waste their time worrying about or reporting a known problem. __FreeBSD_version bumps have negligible cost, so if we're both wrong and this has no effect, then no harm is done. Kris --Q68bSM7Ycu6FN28Q Content-Type: application/pgp-signature Content-Disposition: inline -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- Version: GnuPG v1.2.4 (FreeBSD) iD8DBQFAUjgyWry0BWjoQKURAnPaAJ9maSiPoPIAV1bgMpovqii1pRvxPQCeP+i+ sHX7iZ8LqK2rnFj8na2HnWY= =KL7V -----END PGP SIGNATURE----- --Q68bSM7Ycu6FN28Q--
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