Re: 2.4.3 tcp window id causes problems talking to windows clients

From: Alan Cox (alan@lxorguk.ukuu.org.uk)
Date: Sat Apr 07 2001 - 03:36:47 EST


> to be working quite well (except for the lack of swap reclamation-- I
> appreciate the reasoning, but it makes upgrading older machines very
> difficult.) However, I would rather, for maintenance and sanity

-ac will acquire swap cache reclaim in time, dunno about Linus tree but
I assume it will once it has 0 cost on hot paths. Right now there are
serious 2.4 vm correctness issues to fix first.

> Is there any plan to include the zerocopy patches into the stock kernel?
> The win2k dial-up/window id problem is really a showstopper but hasn't
> generated much traffic on lkml or the digests.
>

I'd hope so. The binfmt_misc and file size security holes that are fixed
in -ac I also want to try and push to Linus for 2.4.4
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