From owner-freebsd-stable Fri Jun 30 17:54:45 2000 Delivered-To: freebsd-stable@freebsd.org Received: from mail.lewman.org (lowrider.lewman.org [209.67.240.52]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 0550037C3AC for ; Fri, 30 Jun 2000 17:54:43 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from sean@rentul.net) Received: by mail.lewman.org (Postfix, from userid 1004) id 6C5AB3D34; Fri, 30 Jun 2000 20:54:46 -0400 (EDT) Received: from localhost (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by mail.lewman.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 64AB35BC2; Fri, 30 Jun 2000 20:54:46 -0400 (EDT) Date: Fri, 30 Jun 2000 20:54:46 -0400 (EDT) From: Sean Lutner X-Sender: sean@lowrider.lewman.org To: "Chad R. Larson" Cc: David Gilbert , freebsd-stable@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: dc19 fructration. In-Reply-To: <200006301819.LAA07889@freeway.dcfinc.com> Message-ID: MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=US-ASCII Sender: owner-freebsd-stable@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG 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