Date: Fri, 30 Jun 2000 20:54:46 -0400 (EDT) From: Sean Lutner <sean@rentul.net> To: "Chad R. Larson" <chad@DCFinc.com> Cc: David Gilbert <dgilbert@velocet.ca>, freebsd-stable@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: dc19 fructration. Message-ID: <Pine.BSF.4.21.0006302053590.9772-100000@lowrider.lewman.org> In-Reply-To: <200006301819.LAA07889@freeway.dcfinc.com>
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On Fri, 30 Jun 2000, Chad R. Larson wrote: > As I recall, David Gilbert wrote: > > I'm not 100% satisfied with the patch. I don't understand the > > operation of SYSCTL_STRUCT() enough to make it allocatate things > > dynamically --- it probably should. As evidenced by the printf(), it > > knows the number of interfaces it's got right before it bzero()'s the > > block to initialize it. > > > > The biggest insult was that BDG_MAX_PORTS was defined ... and used > > elsewhere in the code, but that a static 16 entries was allocated in > > the status struct (and not range checked anywhere). > > And just to preach to the converted, how long do you think it would > have taken you to get that fixed if you were running Solaris? Depending on how you did it, ie - an "Emergency, Production server down" ticket with Sun, a matter of hours. > > -crl > -- > Chad R. Larson (CRL15) 602-953-1392 Brother, can you paradigm? > chad@dcfinc.com chad@larsons.org larson1@home.net > DCF, Inc. - 14623 North 49th Place, Scottsdale, Arizona 85254-2207 > > > To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org > with "unsubscribe freebsd-stable" in the body of the message > To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-stable" in the body of the message
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