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On Mon, 14 Jul 2003, Alan Cox wrote:

> On Llu, 2003-07-14 at 14:56, Marcelo Tosatti wrote:
> > > Then you'll just have to wait a few months
> >
> > I will start looking at 2.4 security fixes which are not applied in 2.6.
> >
> > If someone is already doing that, please tell me.
>
> I'm working on the recent exec and proc stuff. strncpy needs people who can
> do their native asm though.

Right. I'll look at any other possible (misc) security problem which is
fixed in 2.4.