Re: SRMs: xlockmore?

2007-05-11 Thread Thijs Kinkhorst
On Friday 11 May 2007 07:20, Alexander Wirt wrote: Vincent McIntyre schrieb am Freitag, den 11. Mai 2007: is it possible to have xlockmore included in the point release? It had an RC bug that kept it out of etch but that seems to have been resolved some months ago. #318123 isn't resolved.

Is it possible to get a fix for libc6 and nfs-kernel-server into etch r1?

2007-05-11 Thread Rik Theys
Dear SRM, Is there any chance to get a fix for #423369 and #423108, a memory leak in both libc6 and nfs-kernel-server, into etch r1? The libc6 bug causes nfs-kernel-server to leak a lot of memory on busy NFS servers that use netgroups (and other software that uses netgroups). In extremis

Re: Is it possible to get a fix for libc6 and nfs-kernel-server into etch r1?

2007-05-11 Thread Steinar H. Gunderson
On Fri, May 11, 2007 at 01:25:07PM +0200, Rik Theys wrote: Is there any chance to get a fix for #423369 and #423108, a memory leak in both libc6 and nfs-kernel-server, into etch r1? FWIW, here is the proposed patch: --- nfs-utils-1.0.10/debian/changelog +++ nfs-utils-1.0.10/debian/changelog

Re: SRMs: xlockmore?

2007-05-11 Thread Julien Danjou
At 1178878964 time_t, Thijs Kinkhorst wrote: That is of important severity. Work has been done to mitigate the effects of that bug. Not resolved indeed, but worked around so it's not a critical issue anymore: it will work for most systems and conflicts with environments that may be

Re: SRMs: xlockmore?

2007-05-11 Thread Martin Zobel-Helas
Hi, On Fri May 11, 2007 at 14:39:51 +0200, Julien Danjou wrote: At 1178878964 time_t, Thijs Kinkhorst wrote: That is of important severity. Work has been done to mitigate the effects of that bug. Not resolved indeed, but worked around so it's not a critical issue anymore: it will

Re: Is it possible to get a fix for libc6 and nfs-kernel-server into etch r1?

2007-05-11 Thread Martin Zobel-Helas
Hi, Glibc maintainers, what is your opinion on that? Greetings Martin On Fri May 11, 2007 at 14:00:17 +0200, Steinar H. Gunderson wrote: On Fri, May 11, 2007 at 01:25:07PM +0200, Rik Theys wrote: Is there any chance to get a fix for #423369 and #423108, a memory leak in both libc6 and

Re: Is it possible to get a fix for libc6 and nfs-kernel-server into etch r1?

2007-05-11 Thread Julien Danjou
At 1178882707 time_t, Rik Theys wrote: The libc6 bug causes nfs-kernel-server to leak a lot of memory on busy NFS servers that use netgroups (and other software that uses netgroups). In extremis this could be used as a denial of service by letting the NFS server run out of memory. I've

Re: Is it possible to get a fix for libc6 and nfs-kernel-server into etch r1?

2007-05-11 Thread Aurelien Jarno
Martin Zobel-Helas a écrit : Hi, Glibc maintainers, what is your opinion on that? From my point of view the patch looks correct as it has been applied upstream and is now in unstable. However, it looks like nobody has really tried the glibc with this patch applied to make sure it fixes

Re: Is it possible to get a fix for libc6 and nfs-kernel-server into etch r1?

2007-05-11 Thread rtheys
Aurelien Jarno wrote: From my point of view the patch looks correct as it has been applied upstream and is now in unstable. However, it looks like nobody has really tried the glibc with this patch applied to make sure it fixes *this* bug. Hi, I did rebuild the etch glibc package with the

Re: Is it possible to get a fix for libc6 and nfs-kernel-server into etch r1?

2007-05-11 Thread Aurelien Jarno
rtheys a écrit : Aurelien Jarno wrote: From my point of view the patch looks correct as it has been applied upstream and is now in unstable. However, it looks like nobody has really tried the glibc with this patch applied to make sure it fixes *this* bug. Hi, I did rebuild the etch