Re: Don't know what to do!
On Mon, Aug 06, 2001 at 07:55:49PM +0200, Wichert Akkerman wrote:
> Previously Michael Meskes wrote:
> > But the big question is, what to do with such a bug, if the maintainer says
> > it is not a bug at all.
>
> Don't build the quota package for those architectures or include the
> righ5 #defines manually. Herbert is right that you are not supposed to
> use kernel includes directly and if you do you have to deal with any
> possible breakage yourself.
>
> Wichert.
I am afraid i must disagree. True, Linus says the same, but that doesn't
make it right. Everything that interacts with the kernel interface (libc,
quota, *fsck, ...) has to use the headers where that interface is
declared. Everything else is suspect: or would you like the have a
vulnerabilty in your system because kernel defines object "foo" to have
type "bar" while somebodies surrogate header defines it as "baz" where
sizeof(bar) != sizeof(baz).
Dominik
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