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Date:      Thu, 25 Jan 2001 11:48:27 -0800
From:      Alfred Perlstein <bright@wintelcom.net>
To:        Jordan Hubbard <jkh@winston.osd.bsdi.com>
Cc:        Xavier Galleri <xgalleri@enition.com>, Peter Wemm <peter@netplex.com.au>, freebsd-hackers@FreeBSD.ORG
Subject:   Re: Kernel memory allocation bug ...
Message-ID:  <20010125114827.R26076@fw.wintelcom.net>
In-Reply-To: <83845.980448761@winston.osd.bsdi.com>; from jkh@winston.osd.bsdi.com on Thu, Jan 25, 2001 at 10:52:41AM -0800
References:  <xgalleri@enition.com> <83845.980448761@winston.osd.bsdi.com>

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* Jordan Hubbard <jkh@winston.osd.bsdi.com> [010125 10:52] wrote:
> > 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.

Three requests for sample code to make sure it's not pilot error
and to assist in finding the bug isn't "not responding", it's
expecting the problem reporter to be responsible and give us
something we can work with.

No offence Jordan, but you don't owe Xavier an apology, _yet_. :)

-- 
-Alfred Perlstein - [bright@wintelcom.net|alfred@freebsd.org]
"I have the heart of a child; I keep it in a jar on my desk."


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