From owner-freebsd-hackers Thu Jan 25 11:48:50 2001 Delivered-To: freebsd-hackers@freebsd.org Received: from fw.wintelcom.net (ns1.wintelcom.net [209.1.153.20]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 38A3437B69F for ; Thu, 25 Jan 2001 11:48:33 -0800 (PST) Received: (from bright@localhost) by fw.wintelcom.net (8.10.0/8.10.0) id f0PJmRe26734; Thu, 25 Jan 2001 11:48:27 -0800 (PST) Date: Thu, 25 Jan 2001 11:48:27 -0800 From: Alfred Perlstein To: Jordan Hubbard Cc: Xavier Galleri , Peter Wemm , freebsd-hackers@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: Kernel memory allocation bug ... Message-ID: <20010125114827.R26076@fw.wintelcom.net> References: <83845.980448761@winston.osd.bsdi.com> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Disposition: inline User-Agent: Mutt/1.2.5i 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 Sender: owner-freebsd-hackers@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG * Jordan Hubbard [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." To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-hackers" in the body of the message