Re: [Announcement] pre-patch-2.0.39-7

From: David Weinehall (tao@acc.umu.se)
Date: Sat Sep 02 2000 - 08:10:20 EDT

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    On Sat, 2 Sep 2000, David Weinehall wrote:

    > This is probably the last 2.0.39 pre-patch, unless someone comes up
    > with something horrible. Still, I'm not impossible to convince,
    > should there be something one of you out the consider pressing.
    > Test and enjoy!
    >
    >
    > 2.0.39pre7
    >
    > o Fix a bug where some Windows9x (Michael Deutschmann, me)
    > network-activities would make the
    > kernel go kabloom!
    > o Fixed a bug that caused the kernel (Michael Deutschmann, me)
    > to panic when mounting filesystems
    > with different blocksizes

    Doh! This should be the text below (the blocksize-related bug isn't fixed,
    but won't be fixed for v2.0.39; it's considered relatively low-priority as
    it's neither remotely exploitable nor locally exploitable except by mr
    almighty himself (root)):

    ---
    This is the last 2.0.39 pre-patch, unless someone comes up
    with something horrible. Still, I'm not impossible to convince,
    should there be something one of you out the consider pressing.
    Give this one a tough beating, ok? Test and enjoy!
    

    2.0.39pre7

    o Fix a bug in af_unix that wrote to (Michael Deutschmann) a socket after freeing it (aka the Win9x-related oops) o Fixed typo in Documentation (Martin Douda) ---

    /David, who managed to send out combination of the todo-list and the changelog... _ _ // David Weinehall <tao@acc.umu.se> /> Northern lights wander \\ // Project MCA Linux hacker // Dance across the winter sky // \> http://www.acc.umu.se/~tao/ </ Full colour fire </

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