Re: Hurd critical bugs
On Tue, Apr 30, 2002 at 04:20:16PM -0400, Roland McGrath wrote:
> > The Mach bug is fixed in the oskit-mach branch, and will be resolved
> > whenever we make it official. I think we can just make it the default
> > in gnumach to not allow I/O port accesses at all, then this bug
> > would be fixed, too. Roland, is it okay to do this change?
>
> That sounds fine. If X servers already don't work on gnumach, anyway.
> If they do, then people might prefer having it insecure.
Ui, I forgot about X. Yeah, that is a reason to let it as it is.
That reminds me that I need to port X to oskit-mach anyway (but then
probably with console switching right away).
> > The libc0.2 bug is something for Roland to look at. Roland, what's the
> > status on http://bugs.debian.org/46859?
>
> Noone has mentioned this coming up in a very long time. All the related
> code in libc will be rewritten and be entirely different at some point in
> the future (maybe in glibc-2.3, maybe later) along with pthreads
> integration. I don't think it's worth worrying about this problem as it is
> unless someone else hits that assert.
Ok, just wanted to be sure it is not something that is easy to fix.
I will check if the critical severity is really justified in this case,
maybe Mark was not using it as Debian expects it to be used.
Thanks,
Marcus
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