Re: Ptrace hole / Linux 2.2.25

Pavel Machek
2003-03-26T20:10:01Z

Hi!

> > >maybe. Peter, what do you think?
> > I'd rather keep the collection itself on kernel.org.
>
> Another possibility just occured to me.
> It'd be useful to add a feature that adds a check to the
> build process..
>
> "Download post-release errata ? [Y/n]"
>
> and have it wget patches from k.o, verify signatures and auto-apply them,
> which removes the "admin didnt even know there were patches
> that needed to be applied" possibility.
>

That looks like ugly can of worms to me.
"what kernel do you have?"
"2.4.25 and it did two downloads; I was
compiling it on the friday night"

Pavel
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