At 18:01 30/05/2005, Wez Furlong wrote:
If we know the bug, and we have a fix, there shouldn't be anything
stopping us from making a release.
If this patch break binary compat, then the only logical move forward
is a 4.4 branch and release.
I think the question should really be: "why don't we want to give 4.x
users this bugfix?"
I can't think of any valid reasons not to do that.
I mentioned two, there are probably more - breaking binary compatibility
(everyone has to rebuild everything, we'll probably have 0.00001C of global
warming on our hands ;), and confusion.
These reasons are not absolute. For instance, if it was a remote exploit
we were dealing with - then obviously security takes precedence over these
arguments. But it isn't. It's a bug that is pretty uncommon and can be
worked around in userspace. Yes, it's annoying if you bump into it, but in
the scale of severity, I don't think it rates very high.
Zeev
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