Issues to fix before 4.6.1?

Andrew V. Samoilov andrew at email.zp.ua
Tue Mar 29 08:07:39 UTC 2005


Hello, 

> On Sat, 2005-03-26 at 09:25 +0100, Leonard den Ottolander wrote:
> > Hello Pavel,
> > 
> > Could you please tell us which according to you are issues that still
> > need to be fixed before a release of 4.6.1? Development on the 4.6.1-pre
> > branch has been rather quiet for a few months now (since december
> > essentially), so it would be nice to resolve these issues and have a
> > release.
> > 
> I've just fixed the last issue, both in HEAD and MC_4_6_1_PRE.  It was a
> bug in cpio handling that could cause a buffer overflow on broken cpio
> archives.
> 
> Now the biggest issue is catching up with the development.  There are
> hundreds of posts in the mailing list that I have never had a chance to
> read.  I don't feel good about making any releases without having read
> them.  Some messages could be about security issues.

There is a data loss possible if file is edited with external editor over VFS.

-- 
Regards,
Andrew V. Samoilov

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