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Date: Tue, 18 Mar 2003 06:23:41 +1100 (EST)
From: Neale Banks <neale@lowendale.com.au>
To: Tomas Szepe <szepe@pinerecords.com>
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Subject: re: Ptrace hole / Linux 2.2.25
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On Mon, 17 Mar 2003, Tomas Szepe wrote:

> > [alan@lxorguk.ukuu.org.uk]
> > 
> > On Mon, 2003-03-17 at 18:20, Tomas Szepe wrote:
> > > Is this critical enough for 2.4.21 to go out?  Or can it wait like
> > > some other fairly serious stuff such as the ext3 fixes?  What about
> > > the current state of IDE?
> > > 
> > > Would it make sense to repackage 2.4.20 into something like 2.4.20-p1
> > > or 2.4.20.1 with only the critical stuff applied?
> > 
> > If you build your own kernels apply the patch, if you use vendor kernels
> > then you can expect vendor kernel updates to appear or have already
> > appeared
> 
> You have avoided the question(s).  8)

I think Alan's trying to teach us how to fish ;-)

That said, IMVHO something like this does constitute an argument for
2.4.20-p1 (due to the amount of change that's already racked up for
2.2.21).

Regards,
Neale.

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