From owner-freebsd-hackers Fri Sep 19 22:22:41 1997 Return-Path: Received: (from root@localhost) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.7/8.8.7) id WAA05758 for hackers-outgoing; Fri, 19 Sep 1997 22:22:41 -0700 (PDT) Received: from freebie.lemis.com (gregl1.lnk.telstra.net [139.130.136.133]) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.7/8.8.7) with ESMTP id WAA05740; Fri, 19 Sep 1997 22:22:36 -0700 (PDT) Received: (from grog@localhost) by freebie.lemis.com (8.8.7/8.8.5) id OAA23761; Sat, 20 Sep 1997 14:52:27 +0930 (CST) Message-ID: <19970920145226.36630@lemis.com> Date: Sat, 20 Sep 1997 14:52:26 +0930 From: Greg Lehey To: Terry Lambert Cc: nsmart@iona.com, Don.Lewis@tsc.tdk.com, hackers@FreeBSD.ORG, freebsd-bugs@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: Bug in malloc/free References: <19970920094155.13744@lemis.com> <199709200512.WAA17696@usr02.primenet.com> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii X-Mailer: Mutt 0.81e In-Reply-To: <199709200512.WAA17696@usr02.primenet.com>; from Terry Lambert on Sat, Sep 20, 1997 at 05:12:58AM +0000 Organisation: LEMIS, PO Box 460, Echunga SA 5153, Australia Phone: +61-8-8388-8250 Fax: +61-8-8388-8250 Mobile: +61-41-739-7062 WWW-Home-Page: http://www.lemis.com/~grog Fight-Spam-Now: http://www.cauce.org Sender: owner-freebsd-hackers@FreeBSD.ORG X-Loop: FreeBSD.org Precedence: bulk On Sat, Sep 20, 1997 at 05:12:58AM +0000, Terry Lambert wrote: >> But how can you ship a product that's full of bugs? > > At a guess? > > Compete with Microsoft, instead of trying to drive all of the other > poor UNIX schmucks out of business instead. Then you can do what > Microsoft does. So *that*'s why Tandem has got into bed with Microslop. > Oh, wait! That would require adherence to standards, and none of > these idiotic "value added" "standard plus extensions" things that > make it so UNIX from different vendors is not interoperable... > forget I said anything. 8-|.