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In-Reply-To: <19980227093258.00824@follo.net> from Eivind Eklund at "Feb 27, 98 09:32:58 am"
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Eivind Eklund writes:
> On Thu, Feb 26, 1998 at 11:11:05PM -0800, Jordan K. Hubbard wrote:
> > > Also, it does indeed breaks Xaccel. Holwever, it's really easy to fix it
> > > using gdb.  (it's will violate it's license, though :-)
> > 
> > Yeesh!  I can only imagine the tech support that would generate. :-(
> 
> It's a major bug on their part.  I can't see much we can do about it,
> beyond notifying them that the change will take place, and helping
> them distribute announcements.

I already did that.

> 
> We _can't_ let this bug stay in, IMO.

I completely agree.

> 
> Eivind.
> 

-- dima

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