On Sun, May 25, 2003 at 06:21:00AM +0200, Christoph Hellwig wrote: > On Sat, May 24, 2003 at 06:32:26PM -0400, Matt Zimmerman wrote: > > It's not noise at all when it's something that we and others (desperately!) > > want to know about. > > Then read through the prepatch diffs, everything adding checks to > ioctl methods or similar is likely one them.
This approach does not scale. I cannot personally review the diffs for every upstream release of all the software in Debian, nor can any other individual or even a small group. For the most part, this is not necessary, because upstream announces security problems. -- - mdz