From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Received: from mailman by lists.gnu.org with archive (Exim 4.43) id 1N7V4P-0000xj-IZ for mharc-grub-devel@gnu.org; Mon, 09 Nov 2009 09:18:13 -0500 Received: from mailman by lists.gnu.org with tmda-scanned (Exim 4.43) id 1N7V4N-0000x9-VO for grub-devel@gnu.org; Mon, 09 Nov 2009 09:18:12 -0500 Received: from exim by lists.gnu.org with spam-scanned (Exim 4.43) id 1N7V4J-0000v1-2q for grub-devel@gnu.org; Mon, 09 Nov 2009 09:18:11 -0500 Received: from [199.232.76.173] (port=37586 helo=monty-python.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.43) id 1N7V4I-0000ut-Ma for grub-devel@gnu.org; Mon, 09 Nov 2009 09:18:06 -0500 Received: from xvm-190-8.ghst.net ([217.70.190.8]:43659 helo=aybabtu.com) by monty-python.gnu.org with esmtps (TLS-1.0:RSA_AES_256_CBC_SHA1:32) (Exim 4.60) (envelope-from ) id 1N7V4I-0003a6-4B for grub-devel@gnu.org; Mon, 09 Nov 2009 09:18:06 -0500 Received: from [192.168.10.10] (helo=thorin) by aybabtu.com with esmtp (Exim 4.69) (envelope-from ) id 1N7V4G-0007IL-CG for grub-devel@gnu.org; Mon, 09 Nov 2009 15:18:04 +0100 Received: from rmh by thorin with local (Exim 4.69) (envelope-from ) id 1N7V4F-0006gs-Rf for grub-devel@gnu.org; Mon, 09 Nov 2009 15:18:03 +0100 Date: Mon, 9 Nov 2009 15:18:03 +0100 From: Robert Millan To: The development of GNU GRUB Message-ID: <20091109141803.GD19358@thorin> References: <20091109010422.GA23417@thorin> <4AF81E2C.2090700@gmail.com> MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Disposition: inline In-Reply-To: <4AF81E2C.2090700@gmail.com> Organization: free as in freedom X-Message-Flag: Worried about Outlook viruses? Switch to Thunderbird! www.mozilla.com/thunderbird X-Debbugs-No-Ack: true User-Agent: Mutt/1.5.18 (2008-05-17) X-detected-operating-system: by monty-python.gnu.org: GNU/Linux 2.6 (newer, 3) Subject: Re: Imminent bugfix release (1.97.1) X-BeenThere: grub-devel@gnu.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.5 Precedence: list Reply-To: The development of GNU GRUB List-Id: The development of GNU GRUB List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , X-List-Received-Date: Mon, 09 Nov 2009 14:18:12 -0000 On Mon, Nov 09, 2009 at 02:50:36PM +0100, Vladimir 'phcoder' Serbinenko wrote: > > > > Actually, the function of grub_auth_strcmp puzzles me, why would it > > need to wait 100 ms to return the result ? > 10 ms actually. The goal is to take same amount of time indpendently of > input values. But probably the delay should be around whole thing and > it's how I'll do but for this urgent release this will do it Yes. I realized that too this morning, but it's not so important. The previous approach was tested and I'll release 1.97.1 with it, afterwards (or previously in trunk, thankfully we have branches now) we can fix it to do the right thing. -- Robert Millan The DRM opt-in fallacy: "Your data belongs to us. We will decide when (and how) you may access your data; but nobody's threatening your freedom: we still allow you to remove your data and not access it at all."