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I think they're just tired of doing work and the kernel community going shrug (or worse, dismissing it). Of course, the kernel developers are also doing work fo
by twiss 10y ago
I think they're just tired of doing work and the kernel community going shrug (or worse, dismissing it). Of course, the kernel developers are also doing work for free, but at least their work is actually being accepted into the kernel.
Maybe they're just thinking "our customers value our work, so let's focus on providing value to them instead of to people who don't value our work". Whether or not that's true, I don't blame them.
- monocasa 10y ago> The important context here is that neither grsecurity nor PaX developers were involved in that mailing list discussion. The PaX Team's comment to the LWN article clears this up. We've never submitted the patches for mainline inclusion. https://unix.stackexchange.com/questions/59020/why-are-the-grsecurity-patches-not-included-in-the-vanilla-kernel https://unix.stackexchange.com/questions/59020/why-are-the-g...
- tptacek 10y agoThat is pretty much what Spengler says in the Stack Overflow question where this was asked directly.
- cryptarch 10y agoLink for the lazy: https://unix.stackexchange.com/questions/59020/why-are-the-grsecurity-patches-not-included-in-the-vanilla-kernel https://unix.stackexchange.com/questions/59020/why-are-the-g...