Re: [Full-disclosure] Fwd: Re "getting off the patch"

2011-01-17 Thread George Capehart
On 1/15/2011 8:51 AM, Jacqui Caren-home wrote: > FYI the very early Windows NT NTFS filesystem had the same/similar delete > problem as that early > VMS release... Hrmmm. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dave_Cutler /g ___ Full-Disclosure - We b

Re: [Full-disclosure] Fwd: Re "getting off the patch"

2011-01-16 Thread Jacqui Caren-home
On 15/01/2011 01:53, Glenn Everhart wrote: > > > If you have a system that is built well secured in the first place (existence > proof: VMS) > then patches are comparatively rare. This is a joke right? When I first used VMS there was a bug that when a directory was deleted all files within the

[Full-disclosure] Fwd: Re "getting off the patch"

2011-01-14 Thread Glenn Everhart
If you have a system that is built well secured in the first place (existence proof: VMS) then patches are comparatively rare. However nobody goes to the trouble of designing a patch unless there is a known flaw or flaws in software. The way I've seen it done is that pieces of the code get re