AANOUNCE: openssh-1.2.1pre27

[Marc G. Fournier]

On Mon, 17 Jan 2000, Damien Miller wrote:

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> A couple of silly errors, and one dangerous bug were in the pre26 
> release. This release corrects them.
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> http://violet.ibs.com.au/openssh/files/openssh-1.2.1pre27.tar.gz
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> If you want RPMs or any of the other files, please use a mirror:
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> http://violet.ibs.com.au/openssh/files/MIRRORS.html
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> Changes:
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>  - Using __snprintf is *NOT SAFE* on old Solaris. These functions do
>    not behave the same as "normal" snprintf. The compatiblity change
>    has been reverted. Thanks to Theo de Raadt <theo at cvs.openbsd.org>
>    for the warning.
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>   (this means we need to adapt the another snprintf implementation
>    to replace the one in bsd-snprintf.c. Has anyone cleaned up the 
>    PostgreSQL version that was posted here a month or so ago?)

Ummm...that version works on all our supported platforms, which include(d)
stuff as old as SunOS 4.x ... what exactly is the problem?  In fact, I
believe *we* got our copy from sendmail, but its been so long, I'm not
100% certain on that point...