And they checked - the XP guys messed up bigtime, and the NT QFE team is looking into getting the fix out....
Larry Osterman -----Original Message----- From: Larry Osterman Sent: Tuesday, September 03, 2002 9:32 AM To: Larry Osterman; Wolfgang Spraul; [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: RE: file not deleted on Win32 Ok, apparently the SSL fix is in NT4 SP7 (the tech reviewer apparently missed that when he reviewed it :)), I don't know what the deal is with ME/98, apparently nobody ever reported that it was a problem on those platforms to Microsoft :) And if the bug really is in XP (I do trust you Mark, it's just that the QFE guys don't know you from adam), then there was a monumentous mess-up on the part of the guy who was fixing the bug, since all the QFE fixes are supposed to be rolled up into the final release. I'll ask the NT dev who owns schannel. Larry Osterman -----Original Message----- From: Larry Osterman Sent: Tuesday, September 03, 2002 9:09 AM To: Wolfgang Spraul; [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: RE: file not deleted on Win32 I wish I understood what caused bugs to make the QFE list for various products... I do know that the bar for taking fixes is an order of magnitude higher for NT4/ME/98 than it is for XP and W2K, since there isn't any active development being done on them. In this case, I'm sure that it's because the Exchange server got burned by the problem (based on the comments in the KB article). Interestingly enough, the fix is NOT limited to schannel.dll, there are a boatload of other changes associated with the fix, go figure. I've asked the author of the KB article what the deal is with the other platforms that have this bug. Larry Osterman -----Original Message----- From: Wolfgang Spraul [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]] Sent: Tuesday, September 03, 2002 6:01 AM To: Larry Osterman; [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: Re: file not deleted on Win32 Larry - > Is there a reason you can't switch to W2K? In this case, I had to fix the schannel.dll bug q300562 on a production nt4 machine, and the best option I found was to switch to openssl. After the problem was understood, the fix was done and in use after a few hours. Contacting MS support would have probably cost me considerably more time and money. My job was to fix the bug, not to sell a server upgrade to the user. Again, since these updates exist anyway, please note my lobbying for making them available upfront, for download from the web 24/7. Thanks for listening, Wolfgang Spraul
