From owner-freebsd-hackers Thu Nov 13 18:48:37 1997 Return-Path: Received: (from root@localhost) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.7/8.8.7) id SAA17352 for hackers-outgoing; Thu, 13 Nov 1997 18:48:37 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from owner-freebsd-hackers) Received: from ns.mt.sri.com (SRI-56K-FR.mt.net [206.127.65.42]) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.7/8.8.7) with ESMTP id SAA17345 for ; Thu, 13 Nov 1997 18:48:33 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from nate@rocky.mt.sri.com) Received: from rocky.mt.sri.com (rocky.mt.sri.com [206.127.76.100]) by ns.mt.sri.com (8.8.8/8.8.8) with ESMTP id TAA23794; Thu, 13 Nov 1997 19:48:11 -0700 (MST) (envelope-from nate@rocky.mt.sri.com) Received: (from nate@localhost) by rocky.mt.sri.com (8.7.5/8.7.3) id TAA12336; Thu, 13 Nov 1997 19:48:09 -0700 (MST) Date: Thu, 13 Nov 1997 19:48:09 -0700 (MST) Message-Id: <199711140248.TAA12336@rocky.mt.sri.com> From: Nate Williams MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit To: Terry Lambert Cc: sos@freebsd.dk, julian@whistle.com, hackers@freebsd.org Subject: Re: SUID-Directories patch In-Reply-To: <199711140118.SAA18982@usr08.primenet.com> References: <199711132135.WAA00279@sos.freebsd.dk> <199711140118.SAA18982@usr08.primenet.com> X-Mailer: VM 6.29 under 19.15 XEmacs Lucid Sender: owner-freebsd-hackers@freebsd.org X-Loop: FreeBSD.org Precedence: bulk > One of the main incentives for commercial entities to give code > back is offloading of maintenance. You can of course pick and > choose what you want to take, but the fix seems generically > useful And is in 3.0-current, but doesn't belong in 2.2. On the flip side, just because a commercial entity donates code doesn't mean we should take it into the source tree lock/stock/and barrel. Nate