From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Return-Path: Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S270152AbTGNLqG (ORCPT ); Mon, 14 Jul 2003 07:46:06 -0400 Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org id S270096AbTGNLqG (ORCPT ); Mon, 14 Jul 2003 07:46:06 -0400 Received: from holomorphy.com ([66.224.33.161]:28110 "EHLO holomorphy") by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S270407AbTGNLo0 (ORCPT ); Mon, 14 Jul 2003 07:44:26 -0400 Date: Mon, 14 Jul 2003 05:00:09 -0700 From: William Lee Irwin III To: Dave Jones , John Bradford , alan@lxorguk.ukuu.org.uk, linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org, torvalds@osdl.org Subject: Re: Linux v2.6.0-test1 Message-ID: <20030714120009.GH15452@holomorphy.com> Mail-Followup-To: William Lee Irwin III , Dave Jones , John Bradford , alan@lxorguk.ukuu.org.uk, linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org, torvalds@osdl.org References: <200307141150.h6EBoe1P000738@81-2-122-30.bradfords.org.uk> <20030714115313.GA21773@suse.de> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Disposition: inline In-Reply-To: <20030714115313.GA21773@suse.de> Organization: The Domain of Holomorphy User-Agent: Mutt/1.5.4i Sender: linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org X-Mailing-List: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org On Mon, Jul 14, 2003 at 12:50:40PM +0100, John Bradford wrote: >> Oh well, it just seems strange to be asking people to test >> 2.6.0-root-my-box, without making the consequences a bit clearer. On Mon, Jul 14, 2003 at 12:53:13PM +0100, Dave Jones wrote: > If you don't have the time/energy to trawl linux-kernel, testing the > many zillions of `sploits out there to see what works and what doesn't > may be more fun. (Although most if not all should be failing, so it > may also get boring very quickly). It'd be nice if someone like osdl > could add such testing to nightly regression tests. Some of them may > even be candidates for LTP perhaps ? Some work has been done here, though I'm not sure how much; I'll try to get the IBM people involved with it to chime in. -- wli