On 20080927 04:38:53, Colin Percival wrote: > I missed the beginning of this thread, but looking back in the archives... > > 1. I'm very confident that FreeBSD Update is distributing the updated > libpthread.so.
Right. > 2. If you run ident on the libpthread.so.2 which FreeBSD Update distributes, > or look at the src/lib/libpthread/thread/thr_kern.c which FreeBSD Update > distributes, you'll see the old 1.116.2.1 RCS number. This is because > FreeBSD Update mimics "start with the released source code and then apply > the patches which are signed by the FreeBSD Security Officer" without a > detour through CVS -- that detour through CVS would be impossible, in fact, > since we build the binary updates before doing CVS (oops, SVN) commits. Ok! > 3. If you want to check that you have the latest libpthread.so for FreeBSD > 6.3, `sha256 /lib/libpthread.so.2` on an i386 system should print > SHA256 (/lib/libpthread.so.2) = > ff3fc6111331d5b64f939117daef176cc5c511362786ed6325a2333848e80573 Yes, seems I have the patched version. > 4. If your system claims to be running 6.3-RELEASE-p1 but says that there > are no updates needed to update to 6.3-RELEASE-p4, it probably means that > you installed the updated kernel which came with 6.3-RELEASE-p4 but you > haven't rebooted yet. That seems pretty likely. I tend to reboot on power outages when the UPS doesn't hold out... Thanks for this info. -- xw _______________________________________________ freebsd-hackers@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-hackers To unsubscribe, send any mail to "[EMAIL PROTECTED]"
