Re: PID sequences

Alan Cox (alan@lxorguk.ukuu.org.uk)
Sat, 28 Feb 1998 00:12:37 +0000 (GMT)


> Red Hat and Debian should audit the packages they ship, and ship with fixed
> bugs and security holes -just like OpenBSD has done-.
> Fixes should be fed back to the package maintainers. I would expect

If the openbsd people had made a better job of this it would have been
a lot easier to do linux auditing. Not to be taken completely as a criticism
many of the package authors dont understand security anyway or dont care
about it much.

Trying to get the gcc 2.8 tmp file races fixed has proved that even the GNU
people have some serious problems with security priorities at times.

Alan

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