From owner-freebsd-hackers Mon Mar 18 01:33:40 1996 Return-Path: owner-hackers Received: (from root@localhost) by freefall.freebsd.org (8.7.3/8.7.3) id BAA12008 for hackers-outgoing; Mon, 18 Mar 1996 01:33:40 -0800 (PST) Received: from labinfo.iet.unipi.it (labinfo.iet.unipi.it [131.114.9.5]) by freefall.freebsd.org (8.7.3/8.7.3) with SMTP id BAA11985 for ; Mon, 18 Mar 1996 01:33:32 -0800 (PST) Received: from localhost (luigi@localhost) by labinfo.iet.unipi.it (8.6.5/8.6.5) id KAA00195; Mon, 18 Mar 1996 10:30:04 +0100 From: Luigi Rizzo Message-Id: <199603180930.KAA00195@labinfo.iet.unipi.it> Subject: Re: CFV: adding phk_malloc to -stable To: rkw@dataplex.net (Richard Wackerbarth) Date: Mon, 18 Mar 1996 10:30:04 +0100 (MET) Cc: stesin@elvisti.kiev.ua, hackers@FreeBSD.ORG In-Reply-To: from "Richard Wackerbarth" at Mar 17, 96 06:19:37 pm X-Mailer: ELM [version 2.4 PL23] Content-Type: text Sender: owner-hackers@FreeBSD.ORG X-Loop: FreeBSD.org Precedence: bulk > Until you can demonstrate that NOTHING is (more) broken by doing so, > > I VOTE NO! Following this reasoning, you will not allow any extension whatsoever to the kernel or system libs or other critical parts of the system, because you often cannot demonstrate what you ask. > Stable is supposed to be just that -- stable. You cannot go breaking things > that work, even if they work only because of "two wrongs" \begin{humor} Very well, this way you don't even allow bug fixes! So let's call it -immutable (unless something depends on the version being called -stable!) and let's concentrate on something else! \end{humor} A more sensible position would be to ask those who use phkmalloc to report any brokennes evidenced by the new routine. Personally, I have been using it for some time (mostly x applications, mail readers, gcc, ghostscript, nfs server etc.) with no single application going wrong (at least to my knowledge). Luigi ==================================================================== Luigi Rizzo Dip. di Ingegneria dell'Informazione email: luigi@iet.unipi.it Universita' di Pisa tel: +39-50-568533 via Diotisalvi 2, 56126 PISA (Italy) fax: +39-50-568522 http://www.iet.unipi.it/~luigi/ ====================================================================