cvs patch committed to FreeBSD-HEAD
What I concerned has finally happend. nectar committed a patch to cvs without (in my view) maintainers’ permission.
阅读全文…Theo de Raddt requests cryptotest.c to be removed
Theo de Raddt has pointed out that the /dev/crypto testing program in FreeBSD, like in NetBSD, was derived from a test program which he never published with a free license. It has now been deleted from the NetBSD tree as well.
阅读全文…ACM policy poll
I’ve voted “Strongly agree”. The policy is going to change as described:
阅读全文…Recent developments in DragonflyBSD
Recently there were several important developments taken place in DragonflyBSD.
We saw:
阅读全文…Colin Percival (cperciva) finally got his commit bit in FreeBSD src!
Robert Watson wrote:
Please welcome Colin Percival, our newest src committer. Colin has been using and abusing FreeBSD for several years, but in the past couple has produced “FreeBSD update”, and a host of bugfixes and changes from that work. Colin will be picking up his own PRs to merge, and picking up some others. Let this be a lesson to you all: no good deed goes unpunished. I’ll be his mentor.
阅读全文…DragonflyBSD tcp_input.c fix merged!!
Big news! After about four months Jeffrey Hsu has finally merged his fix of RFC3042 to FreeBSD!
I have posted this into the “Security” category because this is a potentially a remote-exploitable security issue. (DoS maxmium).
阅读全文…John Baldwin's Interrupt Routing Patch
John has published a new patch:
http://people.freebsd.org/~jhb/patches/acpi_sci2.patch
阅读全文…GEOM kernel API Manual
Historically, the only translation performed on I/O requests after they they left the file-system layer were logical sub disk implementation done in the device driver. No universal standard for how sub disks are configured and implemented exists, in fact pretty much every single platform and operating system have done it their own way. As FreeBSD migrates to other platforms it needs to understand these local conventions to be able to co-exist with other operating systems on the same disk.
阅读全文…北京地震了
有轻微震感，估计在4级左右。
参与评论qmail remote vulnerablity?
Today someone posted a patch to qmail 1.0.3 and pointed out this.
I have a quick patch to this issue, hope it’s correct.
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