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SubjectRe: Two comments/fixes for pre-2.0.30
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Paul Gortmaker <paul@rasty.anu.edu.au> ,in message <199703220514.AA16587@rasty.
anu.edu.au>, wrote:

I remember a long time ago reading a note in a Changes file for Linux
(1.0.x, 1.2.x ?) [paraphrase] "there are two camps of programmers
working on the Linux kernel: those who can spell, and those who can't:
and a continual war is waged between them."

It's "challenge". Posterity will see if the spelling is fixed before
the paragraph is deleted >:)

> ---------------------------------------------------------
> Following patch against v2.0.29 + pre-patch-2.0.30.gz
> MD5: b33582858ca6ca3ffab7f8098bf00d71 pre-patch-2.0.30.gz
>
> diff -urN /tmp/linux/Documentation/Configure.help linux/Documentation/Configu
>> re.help
> --- /tmp/linux/Documentation/Configure.help Sat Mar 22 14:59:04 1997
> +++ linux/Documentation/Configure.help Sat Mar 22 14:58:42 1997
> @@ -443,7 +443,7 @@
> your computer and requires very little work for the attacker.
> SYN cookies provide protection against this type of attack. With
> this option turned on the TCP/IP stack will use a cryptographic
> - challange protocol know as SYN cookies to enable legitimate users
> + challange protocol known as SYN cookies to enable legitimate users


---
Bob Forsman thoth@gainesville.fl.us
http://www.gainesville.fl.us/~thoth/

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