Re: ld.elf_so sources [was Re: HEADS-UP: temporary security problem in today's NetBSD-current]

[jnemeth%victoria.tc.ca@localhost (John Nemeth)]

On Apr 7,  2:09am, Nick Hudson wrote:
} On Sunday 14 November 2010 22:40:11 Matthias Scheler wrote:
} > On Sun, Nov 14, 2010 at 11:35:41PM +0100, Marc Balmer wrote:
} > > > I'm sorry for the problem but I wasn't expecting that internal
} > > > "libc" functions get used outside of "libc".
} > >
} > > now you owe us beers... ;)
} > 
} > No, the person(s) who committed code that uses internal "libc" function
} > all over the source tree deserve a beating^H^H^H^H^H^H^H lecture in
} > good software development practices.
} 
} ld.elf_so has done this since it was committed back in 1996 and there are 
also 
} lots of examples of "cross over" source file usage.
} 
} That said...
} 
} Should someone(tm) move the stuff to src/common so that people don't keep 
} falling over this?

     No. 1) src/common is for stuff shared between the kernel and
userland.  2) src/common is slated to be removed.

}-- End of excerpt from Nick Hudson