linux-kernel - Re: [PATCH] kdesu broken

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Date:	Mon, 27 Jul 2009 14:22:40 -0700 (PDT)
From:	Linus Torvalds <torvalds@...ux-foundation.org>
To:	Alan Cox <alan@...rguk.ukuu.org.uk>
cc:	OGAWA Hirofumi <hirofumi@...l.parknet.co.jp>,
	"Aneesh Kumar K.V" <aneesh.kumar@...ux.vnet.ibm.com>,
	"Rafael J. Wysocki" <rjw@...k.pl>, Ray Lee <ray-lk@...rabbit.org>,
	LKML <linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org>,
	Andrew Morton <akpm@...ux-foundation.org>
Subject: Re: [PATCH] kdesu broken



On Mon, 27 Jul 2009, Alan Cox wrote:
>
> Nor can we revert several patches because the ppp stuff means going back
> to about 2.6.28 or so for the entire tty layer plus some of the DoS and
> null pointer races go back to 2.2 or 2.0 8(.

The thing is, breaking ppp and reverting at least to 2.6.30 behavior. 
Since it's better than the _current_ breakage.

> We can use the two line slightly imperfect quickfix which people reported
> does fix their problem and I'm tempted to go with that for 2.6.31 because
> it works for the real world cases that matter.

Umm. Which ones? People have reported kdesu and emacs breaking. Last I 
saw, the emacs breakage wasn't fixed by any of the patches seen so far.

		Linus
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