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From: Alan Cox <alan@lxorguk.ukuu.org.uk>
To: Bill Davidsen <davidsen@tmr.com>
Cc: Arjan van de Ven <arjan@infradead.org>,
	Kai Makisara <Kai.Makisara@kolumbus.fi>,
	Linux Kernel Mailing List <linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org>
Subject: Re: [PATCH] make st seekable again
Date: Thu, 10 Mar 2005 17:58:37 +0000	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <1110477516.28860.298.camel@localhost.localdomain> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <Pine.LNX.3.96.1050310114027.11549B-100000@gatekeeper.tmr.com>

On Iau, 2005-03-10 at 16:56, Bill Davidsen wrote:
>  - leave it the way it is
>  - fix the hole and break tar
>  - wait for FSF to fix tar, then fix the hole
>  - try to fix it without breaking tar, which may not be really possible
>    and could leave part of the problem and still break tar somehow
>  - fix it, and leave the admin a way to build a kernel with the hole other
>    than just reverting the fix

If we "fix" it the FSF will probably take years.  If your vendor can't
produce a fixed tar when asked and the issue comes up, get a better
vendor ;)

Alan


  parent reply	other threads:[~2005-03-10 18:15 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 11+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
     [not found] <200503081911.j28JBlxi016013@hera.kernel.org>
2005-03-09 20:51 ` [PATCH] make st seekable again Alan Cox
2005-03-09 21:58   ` Kai Makisara
2005-03-09 22:27     ` Alan Cox
2005-03-10 11:49       ` Bill Davidsen
2005-03-10 12:10         ` Arjan van de Ven
2005-03-10 16:43           ` Alan Cox
2005-03-10 16:56           ` Bill Davidsen
2005-03-10 17:13             ` Arjan van de Ven
2005-03-10 17:58             ` Alan Cox [this message]
     [not found] <fa.i3f7d9s.30m8rg@ifi.uio.no>
     [not found] ` <fa.l4kuq52.e6001g@ifi.uio.no>
2005-03-10  0:43   ` Bodo Eggert
2005-03-10 20:01     ` Willy Tarreau

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