9 Year Old Linux Bug Found and Quickly Resolved
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Quickly Resolved is what you want to see/hear!
patch, patch, patch, was looking forward to doing other things today.
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Shows how well the open source system works.
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@scottalanmiller said in 9 Year Old Linux Bug Found and Quickly Resolved:
Shows how well the open source system works.
Sadly it took 9 years to find the bug in the kernel. . .
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@DustinB3403 said in 9 Year Old Linux Bug Found and Quickly Resolved:
@scottalanmiller said in 9 Year Old Linux Bug Found and Quickly Resolved:
Shows how well the open source system works.
Sadly it took 9 years to find the bug in the kernel. . .
Yeah not sure how 9 years would be considered quickly but, glad it was found.
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@NashBrydges said in 9 Year Old Linux Bug Found and Quickly Resolved:
@DustinB3403 said in 9 Year Old Linux Bug Found and Quickly Resolved:
@scottalanmiller said in 9 Year Old Linux Bug Found and Quickly Resolved:
Shows how well the open source system works.
Sadly it took 9 years to find the bug in the kernel. . .
Yeah not sure how 9 years would be considered quickly but, glad it was found.
The time from when this bug was discovered and patched was minimal like maybe a few hours.
The initial discovery phase was the issue.
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@NashBrydges said in 9 Year Old Linux Bug Found and Quickly Resolved:
@DustinB3403 said in 9 Year Old Linux Bug Found and Quickly Resolved:
@scottalanmiller said in 9 Year Old Linux Bug Found and Quickly Resolved:
Shows how well the open source system works.
Sadly it took 9 years to find the bug in the kernel. . .
Yeah not sure how 9 years would be considered quickly but, glad it was found.
It's VERY fast because you measure time to fix based on when it was found, not when it was created. In closed source software you have no "creation date" to know when it was introduced. The entire idea that a bug has an age is purely an open source thing. ANd fixing a found bug in open source is generally a tiny fraction of the time as in closed source.
If this had been Windows it might have been twelve years old and take months to fix.
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@DustinB3403 said in 9 Year Old Linux Bug Found and Quickly Resolved:
@scottalanmiller said in 9 Year Old Linux Bug Found and Quickly Resolved:
Shows how well the open source system works.
Sadly it took 9 years to find the bug in the kernel. . .
Just means it never came up.
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@scottalanmiller said in 9 Year Old Linux Bug Found and Quickly Resolved:
@DustinB3403 said in 9 Year Old Linux Bug Found and Quickly Resolved:
@scottalanmiller said in 9 Year Old Linux Bug Found and Quickly Resolved:
Shows how well the open source system works.
Sadly it took 9 years to find the bug in the kernel. . .
Just means it never came up.
I don't disagree, it just means that the bug was so obscure or so difficult to find that it was never known. I'm glad it was fixed.
I've patched all of my systems as of today anyways. And will patch again next week.
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Well... this bug was "fixed" a decade ago but a year after the fix the fix was taken out because it interfered with a different patch.
