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Date:      Fri, 25 Sep 1998 13:00:29 -0700
From:      John Polstra <jdp@polstra.com>
To:        mike@smith.net.au
Cc:        dillon@backplane.com, committers@freebsd.org
Subject:   Re: VM fix for write()/mmap() corruption PR going in later today 
Message-ID:  <199809252000.NAA07620@austin.polstra.com>
In-Reply-To: <199809251906.MAA00695@dingo.cdrom.com>
References:  <199809251906.MAA00695@dingo.cdrom.com>

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In article <199809251906.MAA00695@dingo.cdrom.com>,
Mike Smith  <mike@smith.net.au> wrote:

> >     Does anyone have any objections to my commiting the patch into -stable
> >     as well?
> 
> I would be inclined to hold off for a couple of weeks until the patch 
> to -current has proven not to have any side-effects.

I strongly agree with Mike.  I object to the idea of putting it
into -stable immediately.  That's not what -stable is for, and we've
been burned too many times in the past by just this sort of change.
--
   John Polstra                                       jdp@polstra.com
   John D. Polstra & Co., Inc.                Seattle, Washington USA
   "Self-knowledge is always bad news."                 -- John Barth



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