From owner-freebsd-chat@FreeBSD.ORG Mon Mar 15 06:51:48 2004 Return-Path: Delivered-To: freebsd-chat@freebsd.org Received: from mx1.FreeBSD.org (mx1.freebsd.org [216.136.204.125]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id DCFA116A4CE for ; Mon, 15 Mar 2004 06:51:48 -0800 (PST) Received: from smtp.des.no (flood.des.no [217.116.83.31]) by mx1.FreeBSD.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 66A4B43D5C for ; Mon, 15 Mar 2004 06:51:47 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from des@des.no) Received: by smtp.des.no (Pony Express, from userid 666) id 6039D530E; Mon, 15 Mar 2004 15:51:46 +0100 (CET) Received: from dwp.des.no (des.no [80.203.228.37]) by smtp.des.no (Pony Express) with ESMTP id 5D470530A; Mon, 15 Mar 2004 15:51:38 +0100 (CET) Received: by dwp.des.no (Postfix, from userid 2602) id CCD0233CA7; Mon, 15 Mar 2004 15:51:37 +0100 (CET) To: Stephen McKay References: <200403140716.i2E7GDKa007204@dungeon.home> <20040315000944.GA93356@xor.obsecurity.org> <200403150134.i2F1Y5ew004366@dungeon.home> <200403151348.i2FDmuew007550@dungeon.home> <200403151437.i2FEbLew007813@dungeon.home> From: des@des.no (Dag-Erling =?iso-8859-1?q?Sm=F8rgrav?=) Date: Mon, 15 Mar 2004 15:51:37 +0100 In-Reply-To: <200403151437.i2FEbLew007813@dungeon.home> (Stephen McKay's message of "Tue, 16 Mar 2004 00:37:21 +1000") Message-ID: User-Agent: Gnus/5.090024 (Oort Gnus v0.24) Emacs/21.3 (berkeley-unix) MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=utf-8 Content-Transfer-Encoding: quoted-printable X-Spam-Checker-Version: SpamAssassin 2.63 (2004-01-11) on flood.des.no X-Spam-Level: X-Spam-Status: No, hits=0.0 required=5.0 tests=AWL autolearn=no version=2.63 cc: chat@freebsd.org Subject: Re: Doing it right X-BeenThere: freebsd-chat@freebsd.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.1 Precedence: list List-Id: Non technical items related to the community List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , X-List-Received-Date: Mon, 15 Mar 2004 14:51:49 -0000 Stephen McKay writes: > It's easy to miss things. You have to ignore 99% of the stuff that goes = by > if you want to avoid livelock. I responded to the commit of UPDATING.64B= TT, > which looked alarming to me. Turns out it isn't. Rule #1: before reacting to a commit message, read the actual diffs. DES --=20 Dag-Erling Sm=C3=B8rgrav - des@des.no