Re: secure computing for 2.6.7

[Rik van Riel]

On Mon, 2 Aug 2004, Andrea Arcangeli wrote:
> On Mon, Aug 02, 2004 at 02:05:20AM +0200, Andi Kleen wrote:
> > I don't think a sequence number is a good idea. Consider a
> > vendor/third party kernel fixing a security bug, but mainline hasn't
> > taken the patch yet for some reason.
> 
> does this really happen?

Think EVMS in a certain SuSE kernel.  Hard to imagine
no security bugs got fixed in that code ;)

-- 
"Debugging is twice as hard as writing the code in the first place.
Therefore, if you write the code as cleverly as possible, you are,
by definition, not smart enough to debug it." - Brian W. Kernighan

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