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Date:      Wed, 2 May 2001 23:22:23 -0400 (EDT)
From:      Robert Watson <rwatson@FreeBSD.ORG>
To:        Jordan Hubbard <jkh@osd.bsdi.com>
Cc:        grasshacker@over-yonder.net, current@FreeBSD.ORG
Subject:   Re: HEADS UP! bad bug in -current.
Message-ID:  <Pine.NEB.3.96L.1010502232037.76222B-100000@fledge.watson.org>
In-Reply-To: <20010501165654K.jkh@osd.bsdi.com>

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On Tue, 1 May 2001, Jordan Hubbard wrote:

> > Say, FreeBSD is usually pretty safe, even in CURRENT.
> > Has something near this magnitude of Really Bad Stuffage snuck into the
> > codebase before?
> 
> No, it's not common, and it generally takes a Dane swinging something
> sharp to inflict quite this much damage on our user base. ;-) 

Obviously I haven't been playing in the right bits of the system, I'll
have to start hacking the low-level stuff in FFS some more...  I tend not
to cause permanent damage to file systems, sadly.

I think we can all take lessons from phk here -- he achieves a level of
destructiveness that makes even the pro's marvel in wonder.

Robert N M Watson             FreeBSD Core Team, TrustedBSD Project
robert@fledge.watson.org      NAI Labs, Safeport Network Services



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