Flavio Stanchina, aggrappandosi alla tastiera per non cadere, ha scritto: > > On Wednesday 10 October 2001 10:12, Vivaldi Mirco wrote: > > Cavolo ieri e'uscito il 2.4.10 oggi il 2.4.11... > > Intendevi 2.4.11 e 2.4.12, immagino? > > Evidentemente nel 2.4.11 c'era qualche errore grande, Yes, problema sulla gestione dei link simbolici orfani. ---------------------------------------------------------------------- 2.4.11 had a fix for a symlink DoS attack, but sadly that fix broke the creation of files through a dangling symlink rather badly (it caused the inode to be created in the very same inode as the symlink, with unhappy end results). Happily nobody uses that particular horror - or _almost_ nobody does. It looks like at least the SuSE installer (yast2) does, which causes a nasty unkillable inode as /dev/mouse if you use yast2 on 2.4.11. ("debugfs -w rootdev" + "rm /dev/mouse" will remove it, although I suspect there are other less drastic methods too if your fsck doesn't seem to notice anything wrong with it. Only one report of this actually happening so far). So I made a 2.4.12, and renamed away the sorry excuse for a kernel that 2.4.11 was. Linus ---------------------------------------------------------------------- -- UNIX diapers by Pannolini USPTO 2039887 http://www.uspto.gov Matteo Ianeselli ianezz AT sodalia.it (+39) 0461 316452 Visita il LinuxTrent: http://www.linuxtrent.it -- PROSSIMA ASSEMBLEA: venerdi` 19 ottobre 2001 20:30 a Madrano di Pergine. Per iscriversi (o disiscriversi), basta spedire un messaggio con SOGGETTO "subscribe" (o "unsubscribe") a mailto:linuxtrent-request@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx