Messages in this thread | | | Date | Fri, 8 Sep 2006 11:49:45 -0400 | From | Dave Jones <> | Subject | Re: [PATCH] IA64,sparc: local DoS with corrupted ELFs |
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On Fri, Sep 08, 2006 at 08:35:03AM -0700, Linus Torvalds wrote: > > > On Fri, 8 Sep 2006, Kirill Korotaev wrote: > > > > I even checked the email myself and the only difference between "good" > > patches and mine is that mine has "format=flowed" in > > Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii; format=flowed > > > > It looks like some mailers replace TABs with spaces when format=flowed > > is specified. So are you sure that the problem is in mozilla? > > Hey, what do you know? Good call. I can actually just "S"ave the message > to a file, and it is a perfectly fine patch. But when I view it in my mail > reader, your "format=flowed" means that it _shows_ it as being corrupted > (ie word wrapping and missing spaces at the beginning of lines). > > Will apply, thanks. It would be better if your mailer didn't lie about the > format though (treating the text as "flowed" definitely isn't right, and > some mail gateways might actually find it meaningful, for all I know).
I got bitten by this myself a while ago. Since then I added this hack to my .procmailrc
:0fw | /usr/bin/perl -pe 's/^(Content-Type: .*)format=flowed/\1format=flawed/'
now I see patches as they were intended..
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