Date: Wed, 22 Mar 1995 09:06:19 +0100 (MET) From: J Wunsch <j@uriah.heep.sax.de> To: freebsd-bugs@FreeBSD.org (FreeBSD bugs list) Subject: Re: Changed information for PR kern/179 Message-ID: <199503220806.JAA13769@uriah.heep.sax.de> In-Reply-To: <199503220649.GAA01658@isl.cf.ac.uk> from "Paul Richards" at Mar 22, 95 06:49:26 am
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As Paul Richards wrote: > > In reply to Bruce Evans who said > > > > I'd like a mail interface to edit-pr (e.g., by sending a reply to the > > initial bug report). It's too hard for me to log in to freefall and > > edit things with a round trip time of 2-30 seconds. > > Hmm, I don't like the idea of trying to implement that since you'd have > to send mail to freefall, get a copy of the PR, lock the PR while a copy > gets mailed back to you, wait for you to edit it and send it back....... > > I think you see the problem. Most of the time, the problem reports are ``idle'', however. Perhaps we should not lock them, instead simply md5-checksum the entries and someone who tries to overwrite a previous report must provide the correct md5 for the old one. If it's incorrect, the change will be rejected and silently sent back to the originator (perhaps with the actual entry appended for verification). I assume it will hit in less than 1 % of all cases, this seems to be acceptable. -- cheers, J"org joerg_wunsch@uriah.heep.sax.de -- http://www.sax.de/~joerg/ Never trust an operating system you don't have sources for. ;-)home | help
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