Re: Is compatibility for old aout binaries broken?

[John Hay]

> 
> On Wed, Dec 20, 2000 at 07:13:05PM -0800, Kris Kennaway wrote:
> > Argh. I'm going to have to mark that port FORBIDDEN, then, because old
> > versions of the X libraries have remote vulnerabilities.
> 
> Hmmm...  Are there patches available to just fix the security problems? 
> We can't move much beyond 3.3.3 because Netscape's released aout
> binaries have workarounds for bugs from before then, which cause them to
> be unstable when those bugs are fixed.

Maybe we should find out who the good guy is that is building the FreeBSD
versions of Netscape and help him upgrade his version of FreeBSD or get
him a new machine with FreeBSD 4.2 on it?

> 
> Else, I guess we are stuck with netscape-linux or mozilla...  And people
> keep breaking mozilla...

Well there is the bsdi version too...

John
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