Date: Thu, 25 Jan 2001 10:52:41 -0800 From: Jordan Hubbard <jkh@winston.osd.bsdi.com> To: Xavier Galleri <xgalleri@enition.com> Cc: Alfred Perlstein <bright@wintelcom.net>, Peter Wemm <peter@netplex.com.au>, freebsd-hackers@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: Kernel memory allocation bug ... Message-ID: <83845.980448761@winston.osd.bsdi.com> In-Reply-To: Message from Xavier Galleri <xgalleri@enition.com> of "Thu, 25 Jan 2001 19:36:01 %2B0100." <3A707211.2080801@enition.com>
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> That said, I still remain astonished not to get any comments or > questions or hints or any other reactions about the analysis I have > already provided. I have seen other mails in this list that exposed > different kind of issues without requiring code sample to feed a > constructive discussion. Did I miss something ? Some types of problems simply lend themselves to being analyzed without code and others do not. Perhaps the code in question is similar to other code someone is familiar with, or perhaps they're doing parallel work and can related it to the missing code sample, either way it's pretty clear when you get NO feedback on something that your problem does not fall into that category. Feedback in FreeBSD (or in any other open source community) is driven by a very Darwinian process: Those questions which can generate a productive response given the ambient developer time-and-skill conditions generally do, whereas those which can't, don't. It's not an issue to be taken personally, but rather scientifically. If your question generated absolutely no response then the question was simply not "strong" enough and was ruthlessly culled from the question pool through the selection pressure of evolution. Of course, if you're a Creationist rather than a Darwinist then other equally compelling explanations apply. :) - Jordan To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-hackers" in the body of the message
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