Re: Imminent bugfix release (1.97.1)

[Robert Millan]

On Mon, Nov 09, 2009 at 02:50:36PM +0100, Vladimir 'phcoder' Serbinenko wrote:
> >
> > Actually, the function of grub_auth_strcmp puzzles me, why would it
> > need to wait 100 ms to return the result ? 
> 10 ms actually. The goal is to take same amount of time indpendently of
> input values. But probably the delay should be around whole thing and
> it's how I'll do but for this urgent release this will do it

Yes.  I realized that too this morning, but it's not so important.  The
previous approach was tested and I'll release 1.97.1 with it, afterwards
(or previously in trunk, thankfully we have branches now) we can fix it
to do the right thing.

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