procps 2.0.13 with NPTL enhancements
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Well, since I read Albert Cahalan's comment in
Debian bug #172735 [1] I understand the people
maintaining a different branch...Exactly.
That bug is fixed in the official tree, fyi. A segfault, as you said, is always a bug. An error message is displayed.
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You asked for it...
Nice cheapshot there. So, if I remove some critical kernel interfaces from your system, nothing should crash? How about I take out a few choice system calls or a chunk of libc?
It is not the same thing, I think that you agree on that, too.
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(note: the "bug" is not exploitable)
Face it. For nearly a decade, /proc has been a critical kernel interface. This isn't 1991. (embedded systems excepted; they don't use procps)
That said, I may do something about the issue simply to please users with messed-up systems.
In my opinion, you have to do something about the issue, because it is a bug, it is not a missing feature. But this is just my opinion, you are the maintainer, you take decisions.
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Once that bug is fixed, he will probably find that the inability to read files in /proc also causes a crash. Such is the problem with this duplicated effort. It sucks.
I could tell you about some inputs that make your programs crash... Nah. Find them yourself. I wait for your screams. >:-)
'Find them yourself', nice answer ;-( It is a pity read this kind of comment, I still don't understand the reasons of this duplications of code and the reason of this kind of silly sarcastic remarks.
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You finally fixed a SEGV that I fixed well over a year ago. Congradulations. You have others to fix, and a minor (?) security issue as well. Have fun.
Again, you know there is a problem but you don't say anything about it.
You do not want to fix it, don't you ? This is fine with me (even if it is hard to understand the reason), but you are just /wrong/ when you know about a problem and don't provide information about it. Again, this is just my opinion...
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Oooh... I think you have an exploitable buffer overflow as well. Anybody running his procps as an i386 binary on IA-64?
Ditto.
Ciao,
Paolo
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Hi,
Can someone tell me which are the source files that implement the VFS and DEVFS???
Best regards,
Chris.
VFS & DEVFS
Hi,
Can someone tell me which are the source files that implement the VFS and DEVFS???
Best regards,
Chris.