Re: [gentoo-dev] Race condition in Netfilter triggered by glibc 2.9

2009-01-27 Thread Tobias Klausmann
Hi! (fixed the subject) On Tue, 27 Jan 2009, Peter Alfredsen wrote: > [Mike: This looks like your field of expertise] > On Tue, 27 Jan 2009 16:47:50 +0100 > Tobias Klausmann wrote: > > > glibc 2.9 uses a different way to implement getaddrinfo() which > > triggers a race condition in most (if n

Re: [gentoo-dev] PR Project Activity Issues

2009-01-27 Thread Nathan Zachary
Man Shankar wrote: > On 23:51 Mon 26 Jan , Alec Warner wrote: > [snipped] > > >> A long time ago I suggested some sort of pr-onduty role where >> basically for a set period you are the prime pr contact and if someone >> has news it is your job to review and post it or reject it.

Re: [gentoo-dev]

2009-01-27 Thread Peter Alfredsen
[Mike: This looks like your field of expertise] On Tue, 27 Jan 2009 16:47:50 +0100 Tobias Klausmann wrote: > Hi, > > glibc 2.9 uses a different way to implement getaddrinfo() which > triggers a race condition in most (if not all) Netfilter > firewalls that use connection tracking. glibc does no

[gentoo-dev]

2009-01-27 Thread Tobias Klausmann
Hi, glibc 2.9 uses a different way to implement getaddrinfo() which triggers a race condition in most (if not all) Netfilter firewalls that use connection tracking. glibc does nothing wrong per se, it just triggers the condition. (technical details here: http://marc.info/?l=linux-netdev&m=1233044

Re: [gentoo-dev] slot deps in package.mask and profiles

2009-01-27 Thread Ciaran McCreesh
On Mon, 26 Jan 2009 20:34:49 -0800 Alec Warner wrote: > You seriously see no benefits to EAPI 1 or 2 in profiles? What about > slot deps? use deps? these things have been core feature requests > since 2003; surely you don't think they are useless to our users? Use deps in profiles don't make sen

Re: [gentoo-dev] PR Project Activity Issues

2009-01-27 Thread Tobias Scherbaum
Alec Warner wrote: > > Why do you not tend to commit news or approve things? > > PR@ is a nghtmare of spam and what I'll term 'crap.' having real > things marked as such with informative subjects would be useful. > having some kind of rotation would be useful > having some kind of vague 'we will

Re: [gentoo-dev] PR Project Activity Issues

2009-01-27 Thread Man Shankar
On 23:51 Mon 26 Jan , Alec Warner wrote: [snipped] > A long time ago I suggested some sort of pr-onduty role where > basically for a set period you are the prime pr contact and if someone > has news it is your job to review and post it or reject it. This was > never implemented; bu

Re: [gentoo-dev] PR Project Activity Issues

2009-01-27 Thread Alec Warner
On Tue, Jan 27, 2009 at 12:17 AM, AllenJB wrote: > Alec Warner wrote: >> >> On Mon, Jan 26, 2009 at 1:30 PM, AllenJB >> wrote: >>> >>> Hi all, >>> >>> The Gentoo PR Project currently appears to be having difficulties with >>> keeping up, both with the newsletters and announcements, and I believe

Re: [gentoo-dev] PR Project Activity Issues

2009-01-27 Thread AllenJB
Donnie Berkholz wrote: On 21:30 Mon 26 Jan , AllenJB wrote: The Gentoo PR Project currently appears to be having difficulties with keeping up, both with the newsletters and announcements, and I believe this is currently reflecting badly on the project as a whole. It's easy to complain and

Re: [gentoo-dev] PR Project Activity Issues

2009-01-27 Thread AllenJB
Alec Warner wrote: On Mon, Jan 26, 2009 at 1:30 PM, AllenJB wrote: Hi all, The Gentoo PR Project currently appears to be having difficulties with keeping up, both with the newsletters and announcements, and I believe this is currently reflecting badly on the project as a whole. These issues ar