Re: Ptrace hole / Linux 2.2.25

From: Dave Jones (davej@codemonkey.org.uk)
Date: Wed Mar 26 2003 - 15:30:48 EST


On Thu, Mar 27, 2003 at 08:47:27AM +0100, Pavel Machek wrote:

> > and have it wget patches from k.o, verify signatures and auto-apply them,
> > which removes the "admin didnt even know there were patches
> > that needed to be applied" possibility.
>
> That looks like ugly can of worms to me.
> "what kernel do you have?"
> "2.4.25 and it did two downloads; I was
> compiling it on the friday night"

So make one of the patches change extra-version to -errataN or the like.

                Dave

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