On Wed, 19 Oct 2005, Wolfpaw - Dale Corse wrote:

> 
> > > You may well be right, though I would say that the amount of Code 
> > > changes users would be required to do, to make it work 
> > Would end up in 
> > > my lap, seeing as there are some things OpenBSD's Kernel does not 
> > > have, or has fairly out of date versions of
> > > 
> > > One example I can think of is libpcap - and it seems to be Lagging 
> > > behind more because some folks are upset that the devs There won't 
> > > accept their commits, then actually fixing the software.
> > 
> > Either submit complete bug reports or diffs, but stop whining.
> 
> I wasn't whining - again - how the hell is justifying what I said
> whining?

You are saying our libpcap is buggy, but you fail to justify that claim.

> > > Perhaps I will port it .. And see how many people yell at 
> > me for That. 
> > > :)
> > 
> > We have good reasons not to blindly follow changes in libpcap.
> 
> >From what I understand they are security related reasons.. Would anyone
> care to expand a bit on that, so that I may know what to look for
> when doing so?

This sums it up:

http://archives.neohapsis.com/archives/openbsd/2004-04/0971.html

        -Otto

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