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From: "Rémi Cardona" <remi@g.o>
To: gentoo-dev@l.g.o
Subject: Re: [gentoo-dev] 2.6.19 going stable in 1 week
Date: Sun, 07 Jan 2007 19:38:32
Message-Id: 45A14B7D.9040504@gentoo.org
In Reply to: [gentoo-dev] 2.6.19 going stable in 1 week by Daniel Drake
1 Daniel Drake wrote:
2 > Actually, 1 week is the best-case scenario, since we have a couple of
3 > minor regressions which need fixing. Additional pressure comes from the
4 > mmap shared page corruption fix, a significant bug which has existed for
5 > at least 3 years. Unfortunately the fix has not been backported to older
6 > kernels and it's not clear how to do so.
7
8 About that bug, has anyone filed anything for it in Gentoo or is it the
9 kind of bug that creeps up anywhere and can look like something else is
10 responsible for it?
11
12 Just wondering :)
13
14 Rémi
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Re: [gentoo-dev] 2.6.19 going stable in 1 week Daniel Drake <dsd@g.o>