On Thu, Mar 29, 2001 at 11:31:02AM -0600, Doug Siebert wrote:
> findutils maintainers not long after I made my original post to bugtraq.
> I never heard back. You'd think at the very least they'd want to fix the
> bug in '-depth' I found...

You've gotta be persistent and scream alot.. =)

> If there are attackable races in my patch, I'd like to know about it, so
> they can fixed. Maybe someday they'll even get included in findutils where
> they can be useful to a wider audience. I was surprised to hear that
> findutils is now apparently being updated -- my patch was against version
> 4.1, which was already three years old when I made it, but if there are now
> newer releases, maybe I should resubmit it. Where does findutils live now?
> The version on the FSF's ftp site is still 4.1. Do any of the Linux distros
> even know about the newer versions, if it hasn't made it back to the FSF?

The only references to findutils I can find is at gnu.org.. Though I did find some "graphical find/grep" utilities..

> And finally, Solar Designer, I'm curious. What is "Owl"?

One would think "open wall linux" from what he's been saying, it sounds like he's putting together a linux distro?

-miah

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