Date: Mon, 6 Dec 1999 13:05:24 +0100 From: Brad Knowles <blk@skynet.be> To: Sheldon Hearn <sheldonh@uunet.co.za> Cc: obrien@FreeBSD.ORG, audit@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: cvs commit: src/sys/i386/conf files.i386 src/sys/kern kern_fork.c src/sys/libkern arc4random.c src/sys/sys libkern.h Message-ID: <v0422080bb4715569a745@[195.238.21.204]> In-Reply-To: <28146.944480094@axl.noc.iafrica.com> References: <28146.944480094@axl.noc.iafrica.com>
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At 1:34 PM +0200 1999/12/6, Sheldon Hearn wrote: > One thing you're missing here is that CURRENT often _becomes_ STABLE > later. :-) Understood. However, so long as it's -CURRENT, we can still make large changes, right? ;-) Speaking of which, if 4.0 is going to hit feature freeze pretty soon, does this mean that -CURRENT will become version 5.0? Will that happen automatically when 4.0 hits feature freeze, or are these two separate events? > However, I think I agree with you. Perhaps a small POLA sacrifice for > the sake of a large security gain is cool. I don't see a massive gain > for day-to-day stuff myself, but folks are talking like it's a large > gain. Some of them are sensible folks. ;-) Well, perhaps this particular thing isn't that big. This is one reason why I was so surprised to see people advocating that we don't change the default. However, if you collect all these "little" changes together, I think you arrive at something that is *huge*. What I'm trying to do is advocate a policy that allows us to more quickly get closer to where we want to be. > PS: Damnit, I didn't realize that the message I replied to originally > was a cross-post. Sorry. Damn. Caught me, too. I've removed the cross-post to -arch on this reply, and will let you have the last word on this subject on that list. ;-) -- These are my opinions -- not to be taken as official Skynet policy ____________________________________________________________________ |o| Brad Knowles, <blk@skynet.be> Belgacom Skynet NV/SA |o| |o| Systems Architect, News & FTP Admin Rue Col. Bourg, 124 |o| |o| Phone/Fax: +32-2-706.11.11/12.49 B-1140 Brussels |o| |o| http://www.skynet.be Belgium |o| \/\/\/\/\/\/\/\/\/\/\/\/\/\/\/\/\/\/\/\/\/\/\/\/\/\/\/\/\/\/\/\/\/\/\/ Unix is like a wigwam -- no Gates, no Windows, and an Apache inside. Unix is very user-friendly. It's just picky who its friends are. To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-audit" in the body of the message
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