Re: [xchat-discuss] Re: MDKSA-2000:039 - xchat update(xchat-1.4.2-nourltoshell.patch)

[Mark Derricutt <mark@chalice.gen.nz>]

On Sat, 26 Aug 2000, Anthony Fok wrote:

> Hehe, a friend and Debian developer-to-be "Saka" YU Guanghui pointed
> out an article on http://lwn.net/daily/.  It turns out that Conectiva
> has already put out a patch for it, and it uses execvp instead of
> gnome-lib.  :-)  Here is the link:

Is it just me or does this seem to not follow the spirit of open source,
all these various people have made their patches against xchat for this
vulnreability, but from what I can see, none of them have sent their
patches back to Peter to include in the actual program.  Wouldn't that
be logical and good?

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