[sldev] SLDev Digest, Vol 35, Issue 7

[Bradley Willson]

Hi Thomas,

I don't know of a single wiki dedicated to the subject, but a google turns
up alllll kinds of hits on the subject.  Tracking the bug is probably your
best bet.  I have heard rumblings that they think it is fixed in Fedora 12.

Brad


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>   1. Re: Is there anyone else using a Fedora 11 configuration?
>      (Bradley Willson)
>   2. Re: Is there anyone else using a Fedora 11 configuration?
>      (Thomas Nelson)
>   3. Re: -Werror (was:  Notes from a Mac Build)
>      (lists.secondlife.com at trap.wereanimal.net)
>   4. Re: -Werror (was:  Notes from a Mac Build) (Argent Stonecutter)
>   5. Re: Is there anyone else using a Fedora 11 configuration?
>      (Thomas Nelson)
>   6. Snowglobe 1.2 status (Rob Lanphier)
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> Message: 1
> Date: Thu, 5 Nov 2009 12:10:46 -0800
> From: Bradley Willson <bradley.j.willson at gmail.com>
> Subject: Re: [sldev] Is there anyone else using a Fedora 11
>        configuration?
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> Sounds very familiar with intel chipsets...
> https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=509519#c32 was what I have
> done
> about it so far
>
> --
> Best regards,
> Bradley Willson
> http://www.linkedin.com/in/bradleywillson
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> Date: Thu, 05 Nov 2009 12:31:03 PST
> From: Thomas Nelson <tdark at speakeasy.net>
> Subject: Re: [sldev] Is there anyone else using a Fedora 11
>        configuration?
> To: Bradley Willson <bradley.j.willson at gmail.com>,
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> Thanks for the pointer.  I'll try downversioning my mesa drivers and seeing
> if that turns the trick.  I'll report back this evening.
>
>
> >On Thu Nov  5 12:10 , Bradley Willson <bradley.j.willson at gmail.com>
> wrote:Sounds very familiar with intel chipsets...
> https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=509519#c32 was what I have
> done about it so far
> >-- Best regards, Bradley Willsonhttp://
> www.linkedin.com/in/bradleywillsonA Veteran - whether active duty,
> retired, national guard or reserve - is someone who, at one point in their
> life, wrote a check made payable to "The United States of America", for an
> amount of "up to and including my life." -- Author Unknown
> >
> >
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> Message: 3
> Date: Fri, 6 Nov 2009 03:00:46 -0500
> From: lists.secondlife.com at trap.wereanimal.net
> Subject: Re: [sldev] -Werror (was:  Notes from a Mac Build)
> To: sldev at lists.secondlife.com
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> On Wednesday 04 November 2009 10:05:45 am Lillian Yiyuan wrote:
> > -Werror is supplied by the make files. This too involves changing
> > code, and is a bad idea in open source, since it gets people to check
> > problems before submitting them as patches.
> >
> > Better here, I think, would be to make this opaque, rather than having
> > constant strings in cpp files that the code hands out char * to.
> >
> > The compiler is right here, this is a bad idea, and it should be fixed
> > rather than swept under the rug.
> >
>
> From the Coding Standard wiki at
>
> http://wiki.secondlife.com/wiki/Coding_standardhttp://wiki.secondlife.com/wiki/Coding_standard
>
> "Fix all compiler warnings. "
>
> --Techwolf
>
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> Message: 4
> Date: Fri, 6 Nov 2009 06:37:46 -0600
> From: Argent Stonecutter <secret.argent at gmail.com>
> Subject: Re: [sldev] -Werror (was:  Notes from a Mac Build)
> To: Second Life Developer Mailing List <sldev at lists.secondlife.com>
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> On 2009-11-06, at 02:00, lists.secondlife.com at trap.wereanimal.net wrote:
> > On Wednesday 04 November 2009 10:05:45 am Lillian Yiyuan wrote:
> >> -Werror is supplied by the make files. This too involves changing
> >> code, and is a bad idea in open source, since it gets people to check
> >> problems before submitting them as patches.
> >>
> >> Better here, I think, would be to make this opaque, rather than
> >> having
> >> constant strings in cpp files that the code hands out char * to.
> >>
> >> The compiler is right here, this is a bad idea, and it should be
> >> fixed
> >> rather than swept under the rug.
> >>
> >
> > From the Coding Standard wiki at
> >
> http://wiki.secondlife.com/wiki/Coding_standardhttp://wiki.secondlife.com/wiki/Coding_standard
> >
> > "Fix all compiler warnings. "
>
> "Fix all compiler warnings" doesn't mean "sweep under the rug".
>
> Shoving in a strdup() is sweeping it under the rug.
>
> Incidentally... if there is an actual vulnerability caused by string
> punning, throwing in a strdup() won't necessarily fix it. Particularly
> in the case of the first string which is almost certainly unique. The
> right fix is almost certainly making the structure members pointers to
> const strings.
>
>
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> Message: 5
> Date: Fri, 6 Nov 2009 08:17:47 -0800
> From: "Thomas Nelson" <tdark at speakeasy.net>
> Subject: Re: [sldev] Is there anyone else using a Fedora 11
>        configuration?
> To: <SLDev at lists.secondlife.com>
> Message-ID: <92E735C661FB440B9AC4C41E59532B9B at Spawn>
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> Thank you Bradley,
>
>
>
> Your information was right on target.  Dropping the Mesa drivers back to
> 7.5-0.14 resolved most of the rendering issues.
>
>
>
> Is there a wiki page for detailing these issues and their resolutions?
>
>
>
> TomN
>
> --
> Thomas Nelson  tdark at speakeasy.net
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> From: sldev-bounces at lists.secondlife.com
> [mailto:sldev-bounces at lists.secondlife.com] On Behalf Of Bradley Willson
> Sent: Thursday, November 05, 2009 12:11 PM
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> Subject: Re: [sldev] Is there anyone else using a Fedora 11 configuration?
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>
>
> Sounds very familiar with intel
> chipsets...https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=509519#c32 was what
> I
> have done about it so far
>
> --
> Best regards,
> Bradley Willson
> http://www.linkedin.com/in/bradleywillson
> A Veteran - whether active duty, retired, national guard or reserve - is
> someone who, at one point in their life, wrote a check made payable to "The
> United States of America", for an amount of "up to and including my life."
> -- Author Unknown
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> Date: Fri, 6 Nov 2009 10:13:13 -0800
> From: Rob Lanphier <robla at lindenlab.com>
> Subject: [sldev] Snowglobe 1.2 status
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> Hi folks,
>
> We're really close to building the last RC.  A flurry of checkins went
> in yesterday, and we've built 1.2.0.2971:
> http://wiki.secondlife.com/wiki/Download_Snowglobe
>
> Thickbrick is putting the finishing touches on SNOW-157.  If he's able
> to finish that off before 3pm PST today, we'll let that into Snowglobe
> 1.2, fire off a build, and that'll be RC 1.
>
> Please check out build 2971 and let us know if there's any whoppers in
> there we're missing.
>
> Thanks
> Rob
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-- 
Best regards,
Bradley Willson
http://www.linkedin.com/in/bradleywillson
A Veteran - whether active duty, retired, national guard or reserve - is
someone who, at one point in their life, wrote a check made payable to "The
United States of America", for an amount of "up to and including my life."
-- Author Unknown
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