Date: Tue, 1 Jun 1999 16:08:08 +0000 (GMT) From: 0x1c <nick@feralmonkey.org> To: Bill Fumerola <billf@jade.chc-chimes.com> Cc: Kris Kennaway <kkennawa@physics.adelaide.edu.au>, Eivind Eklund <eivind@FreeBSD.ORG>, freebsd-security@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: auditors Message-ID: <Pine.BSF.4.05.9906011604440.10887-100000@shibumi.feralmonkey.org> In-Reply-To: <Pine.BSF.3.96.990531222115.26283A-100000@jade.chc-chimes.com>
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On Mon, 31 May 1999, Bill Fumerola wrote:
> My exact feelings. Perhaps its time for me to go walking through
> {Open,Net}BSD's cvs tree and start hunting security fixes.
Well, fixes can be submitted, but it's no use unless they are implemented.
A large number of OpenBSD patches/fixes implement non-standard behaviour,
which often appear to be frowned upon by committers. At minimum these
should be considered if an option is given to revert to the historical
behaviour.
Nick
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