re: Ptrace hole / Linux 2.2.25

Neale Banks
2003-03-17T19:27:16Z

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.