Ben Hutchings dixit:

>> One’s to add back CONFIG_BRK which is apparently needed to run a
>> popular ramdisk image used e.g. when testing the hardware or setting
>> up a completely new system.
>
>You mean CONFIG_COMPAT_BRK.  I don't like this but I doubt anyone cares
>to write exploits for m68k any more.

Oh sorry, yes I do. I understand why you’d not like it, but the
second half-sentence is probably true (I know an OpenBSD developer
who runs his webserver on a VAX for the same reason), and the
kernel developer explicitly requested it.

>I'll apply this, but am currently blocked by the Alioth outage.

No worries about that, and, as usual, thanks for the good “service”.

bye,
//mirabilos
-- 
„Cool, /usr/share/doc/mksh/examples/uhr.gz ist ja ein Grund,
mksh auf jedem System zu installieren.“
        -- XTaran auf der OpenRheinRuhr, ganz begeistert
(EN: “[…]uhr.gz is a reason to install mksh on every system.”)


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