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Re: biggest... check-in... ever...
- From: "Pierre A. Humblet" <Pierre dot Humblet at ieee dot org>
- To: cygwin-developers at cygwin dot com
- Date: Wed, 24 Sep 2003 15:22:46 -0400
- Subject: Re: biggest... check-in... ever...
- References: <20030923040857.GA26809@redhat.com>
- Reply-to: Pierre dot Humblet at ieee dot org
Christopher Faylor wrote:
>
> Tomorrow, I will check in my massive rewrite of fhandler stuff to deal
> with devices in a different way. It will eventually allow on-disk
> device files. It sort of does now but managed mode clobbered this a
> little.
>
> Anyway, I'm nervous about checking this in since it hits so many things
> but it's never going to get smaller, so what the heck.
>
> The old code, before I merged my branch, is tagged as "pre-cgf-merge".
>
> There are a few random cleanups besides the device code and one large
> rewrite of the signal handling code, as previously mentioned. It uses
> pipes now. I haven't fixed this to deal with the SIGCHLD issue yet
Chris,
That's as well because I see a related but bigger issue coming up.
Let's fix both at once, in due time.
When you are done with this biggest patch, could you look at the patch I
sent last week, about securing the delete queue?
Once that is done I will send a patch fixing the bug found by Jason
Tishler (Recent security improvements breaks proftpd).
Pierre