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Re: Pierre -- additions to 1.5.12 "changelog"?
On Thu, Oct 28, 2004 at 12:37:54PM -0400, Pierre A. Humblet wrote:
>- Properly load registry hives and insure access to system mounts. (Pierre Humblet)
>
>Also, now that the trouble with bash PID reuse is identified, I would
>keep the number of handles kept around to its current (1.5.11)
>value. That won't make anything worse.
>
>Increasing the number won't eliminate the bug, just make it harder to
>detect and fix.
>In fact once a patched bash is released, we should decrease the number
>of handles! Similar bugs (if any) will then show up with greater
>frequency in other applications, so we can detect and fix them.
Where is our bash maintainer during all of this? Is he willing to make
a new release? This is a pretty serious problem which needs to be fixed.
I didn't get the feeling that Chet was all that interested in fixing this
either, for some reason.
cgf