[PATCH 2/10] Debian patch: Unknown purpose!

Steve Langasek vorlon at debian.org
Sat Jun 9 10:02:17 GMT 2007


Hi Jerry,

On Tue, Jun 05, 2007 at 07:24:34AM -0500, Gerald (Jerry) Carter wrote:
> > Heh, confirmed; I didn't realize that /proc/$pid/cmdline 
> > on Linux would return a full buffer rather than a set
> > of null-terminated strings.  This seems to be the case
> > for /proc/$pid/environ as well, so both of these
> > measures are circumventable, at least on Linux 2.6.

> > Are you inclined to apply it anyway, or should we just 
> > drop it?

> Let's drop the first part of the patch.  I'll deal with
> diagnosis.c today.

Ok, Christian has dropped the first of these patches.  And I've just
confirmed that the bug that was originally being addressed with the patch to
diagnosis.c doesn't exist in 3.0.25a, so I'm dropping that patch as well,
please ignore it.

Thanks,
-- 
Steve Langasek                   Give me a lever long enough and a Free OS
Debian Developer                   to set it on, and I can move the world.
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